To Pacific-Coast and Inter-Mountain State Patrons 
IN presenting our 1913 book to our Pacific-coast 
and Inter-mountain-state patrons we wish to 
thank them for the generous patronage given to 
our branch farms in the far West. It is only one 
year ago that we made first pubhc announcement 
of the fact that we had estabhshed two important 
enterprises in that great horticultural domain. 
No sooner had our announcement reached the 
strawberry growers of that section than letters 
came pouring in upon us, congratulating us upon 
the step we had taken and giving us the most 
substantial assurances of all, namely, generous 
orders for plants grown in those two sections of 
the West. At the very outset one British Co- 
lumbia customer sent us an order for 79,000 plants, 
and after he had received them and set them out 
and they were nicely growing, he wrote us of his 
great satisfaction, and assured us that his experi- 
ence with the Western-grown plants was such 
that he expected to send us very large orders for 
plants for delivery in the spring of 1913. From 
California orders came in so rapidly that within a 
few weeks of time all of the plants of several 
varieties were completely sold out, and still the 
orders came flooding in, by special-delivery mail 
and by telegraph, several of them calling for as 
high as 100,000 plants each of a single variety. 
So with Oregon and Washington — the Canby 
branch was flooded with orders to such an extent 
that two farms the size of the Canby branch 
farm would have been utterly inadequate to sup- 
ply the demand. 
Much of the same experience was had with the 
Twin Falls branch, and the same encouraging 
words have been coming to us from customers 
ever since the close of the shipping season. From 
PROMPT sliiliments constitute a large element in achievinj? 
success with plants. At. Canby, Ore., we employ an up-to- 
date motor car to do the business between the farm and the 
express office, and this insures quick work when time is im- 
portant. Lot 9 of )io\yfr and a steady hand at the wheel maUes 
it easy to meet diffijult situations and catch the fast e,xpres8. 
Twin Falls plants were shipped into the eastern 
part of British Columbia, eastern Washington, 
all over the states of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, 
Utah, Nevada and Colorado, and from even as 
far as Texas came generous orders for Twin Falls 
plants. And one Florida customer insisted upon 
buying some of the Western-grown plants, be- 
cause he could get them so much earlier than we 
could ship them from Three Rivers. 
It therefore gives us great pleasure to an- 
nounce that we have made extensive additions to 
the crop area both at Twin Falls and Canby, and 
with our very large acreage at Three Rivers, are 
confident that we are to be in position to supply 
the requirements of all our customers through- 
out the North American continent. 
The reception given to our enterprises by the 
press of the Western states has been most grati- 
fying, and the interest shown in the shipments 
we have made to remote points has led newspa- 
pers on the Coast to devote considerable space to 
our business along that fine. This is especially 
true concerning a shipment made to Hawaii and 
to a somewhat extensive shipment made to Jap- 
an in the early days of January 1912 from Canby. 
Our Hawaii customer, by the way, writes that 
his plants actually grew in transit and began 
growing very vigorously as soon as they were set 
out in the hospitable soil of his tropical island. 
Strawberry growers throughout the region 
which these two branch farms serve assure us 
that they view our coming to that territory as a 
distinct aid to their own success, and the fact that 
Kelloggplants, grown under the same soil, climatic 
and cultural conditions that obtain throughout 
that region, were available, has encouraged many 
growers greatly to extend their operations in the 
direction of strawberry production. One impor- 
tant company in Utah will set out 80,000 Kellogg 
plants in the spring of 1913, and we learn that 
many others will follow their example in this re- 
gard. These growers realize that we have paid 
especial attention to the selection of varieties 
particularly adapted to their situation, and that 
we make it our personal care to develop in the 
plants grown for their use just the qualities re- 
quired to meet their conditions. 
On Pages 62 and 63 of this book our Western 
customers will find complete lists of the varieties 
grown at Canby and Twin Falls, together with 
prices for same, and we are very sure that they 
will be greatly pleased to note the wide range of 
qualities and high excellence of the varieties con- 
tained in these lists. 
Our Mr. Beatty spent some time at each of our 
Western farms during the past season inspecting 
the plants, and he reports there are no variations 
in any variety; that the plants of every variety 
are perfectly developed, and that he does not see 
what more we could do to get plants of higher 
quality than those we shall ship from these farms 
in the season of 1913. He reports further that 
it will be necessary to increase the acreage in or- 
der to supply the growing demand for our West- 
ern-grown plants. Every grower he visited who 
received plants from these farms last season 
was delighted with the growth the plants had 
made on his grounds, and all were unanimous in 
saying that they should set a larger acreage this 
year, and that they would set exclusively of Ke^ • 
logg plants. 
We take this opportunity to publish some of 
the letters we have received from our Western 
customers, and no one can read what these pa- 
