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GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1912 by R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
VIEW OF C. H. MUIRHEID'S STRAWBERRY FIELDS NEAR DECATUR, ILL. 
"pHIS scene includes only a portion of Mr. Muirheid's extensive fields. He is one of the most successful growers of straw- 
berries in the state of Ilhnois. Writinsr us under date of Junes, 1912 he says: "I feel indebted to R M Kellogg Co for 
strawberry plants and information. The plants are your plants with the exception of a few rows. Let me say that it doesn't 
pay to set plants from unreliable parties. I started five years ago with your plants. I now sell from 40 to 60 cases of straw- 
berries every morning to grocers and hold their trade from year to year. Never have had enough berries to go around and 
next year will set 20,000 plants." This is the universal report concerning the commercial success of Kellogg's strawberries 
press company to correct the over-charge. You are the only 
one so far that has had the courage to tackle the express com- 
panies in our behalf, and your first elTort brought immediate 
results. You can figure for yourselves just what it means to 
the people to have someone who can and will force them to 
give ua a square deal." James Melvyn. 
Inter-Mountain State Experiments 
IN order to more accurately determine the fruit- 
ing capacity of our different varieties of straw- 
berry plants in the Inter-mountain States, we 
have established an experimental farm at Jerome, 
Idaho. This prosperous and growing town is lo- 
cated in the centerof what is known as the North- 
Side Twin Falls Tract and is composed of approx- 
imately 180,000 acres. Only a few years ago this 
freat tract of land was nothing but a worthless 
esert, covered with sage-brush and bunch-grass. 
Fortunately for the good of the people who wish 
to own productive homes, there are men who see 
the possibilities of barren lands. Experts who 
examined the soil on this tract found that water 
was the only thing lacking to make it one of the 
most fertile spots in America, and they found the 
men of faith and capital to do the development 
work necessary to bring the water to this wonder- 
ful land and transform it from a barren waste in- 
to a veritable Eden. Messrs. J. S. and W. S. 
Kuhn of Pittsburg have erected an enduring mon- 
ument to their names because they had the cour- 
age to expend millions of dollars in accomplishing 
this mighty task, which made it possible for thous- 
ands of soil tillers to secure productive homes. 
The soil at Jerome is a rich sandy loam; just 
what we consider an ideal soil for strawberries. 
In the spring of 1911 we set out forty-eight vari- 
eties which fruited for the first time in that sec- 
tion in the summer of 1912. During the entire 
fruiting season a clerk was present in the plot 
at every picking, and careful records were made 
of the number of quarts picked from each variety. 
We were agreeably surprised to learn through 
this test that every variety fruited more heavily 
than we dared hope for, and the quality of the 
fruit was exceptionally high. Naturally, there 
were varieties that were superior to others, and 
using our records as a basis we find the varieties 
that are best adapted to the Inter-mountain 
region and under irrigation were those we name 
below: 
Brandywine, Chesapeake, Clyde, Glen Mary, 
Haverland, Jocunda, Parsons' Beauty, Senator 
Dunlap, Wm. Belt and a new variety we have 
called No. 2, and which we have now decided to 
name "Jerome" in honor of one of the principal 
towns of the North Side Tract. 
The testing plot on our farms at Twin Falls al- 
so revealed some very pleasant surprises, and the 
varieties that took the lead on the North Side, 
which is composed of sandy soil, also took the lead 
at Twin Falls on the South Side, where the soil is 
quite heavy. This goes to show that these vari- 
eties may be depended upon throughout the en- 
tire Inter-mountain State region. 
Pacific Coast Experiments 
DURING the past two years we have been test- 
ing anumberof varieties at ourfarm at Can- 
by, Ore., where practically every variety we 
grow was fruited, and as a result of these tests 
we find that the following varieties are espe- 
cially adapted to the Pacific Coast States: 
August Luther, Brandywine, Clark's Seedling, 
Clyde, Glen Mary, Klondike, Magoon, Marshall, 
Molena, Nick Ohmer, Wm. Belt. 
In British Columbia all of the varieties above 
named do equally as well, and in addition to these 
Senator Dunlap and Warfield are very profitable. 
With our experimental farm at Three Rivers 
