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GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1912 by R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
STRAWBERRY FIELD OF W. A. RIECHEU RED LAKE FALLS, MINN. 
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N sending: us this photofrraph, Mr. Riechel takes occasion to say: You certainly send out the finest strawberry plants I ever 
have received. Mr. Riechel certainly deserves to win success, for his field is a model. The most imoortant crop shown is 
J^^fil'th T ^"7 "S^*?^- ^"A-^" '""'fates how every member of the family participates in the pleasure and 
profit the strawberry field affords. This attractive feature of the home strawberry patch is not the least of its advanUges 
they have proved a successful crop while waiting 
for the trees to bear, and continues as follows: 
"The question of labor in picking lartre quantities of straw- 
berries has been partially solved by the jam factories sending 
their employees into the field as pickers. They purchase the 
fruit on the vines at a contracted price per pound and do the 
picking. Contracts for three to five years are being made. 
There are two jam factories in Nelson, B. C, and it is report- 
ed that several more will be built here during the present 
year." 
There never has been in all history enough 
strawberry jam of high quality in America to sat- 
isfy the normal demands of the public. To make 
use of the second-class fruit in this way will add 
greatly to the profits of the strawberry growers 
in any section where such use is made of the 
surplus fruit. What is true of British Columbia 
and the Pacific-Coast and Inter-Mountain states 
in this direction is just as true of Michigan or any 
other state where strawberries are grown in ex- 
tensive fields. We hope to see this work greatly 
extended during the next few years, and there is 
no better time to begin than right now. 
Our Plants Make Big Yields 
IN the December issue of Scientific Farmer we 
found a report sent that publication by J. S, 
Furnas, of Brownville, Nebraska, concerning 
the results he had secured from three-quarters of 
an acre of strawberries in 1911, season that 
tested the science and skill of every horticultur- 
ist in the country. Mr. Furnas reported that he 
had grown on that small piece of ground 6,960 
quarts of strawberries, for which he had received 
$2.50 a crate, era total of $725, or approximately 
$1,000 an acre. 
Invariably when we read about such big yields 
we have found, upon investigation, that they 
were grown on Kellogg's Thoroughbred plants, 
and so with some curiosity to see if this were true 
in the case of Mr. Furnas, we looked the matter 
up only to find that Mr Furnas was a regular 
customer of ours. We wrote him at once and 
asked if he had won such splendid results with 
our plants, and by return mail came his reply, in 
which he said our surmise was correct, and that 
not only had he produced the big crop from Kel- 
logg plants, but that he was in the market for 
more plants of the same kind! 
And not only do Kellogg plants make big yields 
of fruit to the acre, but they produce the finest 
individual berries. Writing to us under date of 
July 29, 1912, Asa O. Pence of Converse, Ind., 
says: 
1 am still in the lead in the strawberry business here. 
There is a reason for my being in the lead— I am usinif Kel- 
logg plants. I enclose herewith a clipping from the Marion 
Chronicle of June 19th, which refers to some strawberries 
I sent to my brother in that city. They were of the Gandy 
variety, and some of the berries measured inches in cir- 
cumference." 
The clipping from the newspaper to which Mr. 
Pence refers contains the following information: 
"For several years Mr. Pence has been placing on tho 
market an excellent quality of berries, but this year they are 
larger and better than ever before. Although more than 300 
quarts of the large berries are picked daily, none are shipped 
to the city markets, but all are sold either to persons who call 
at the Pence farm for them or to the Converse groceries. 
Many farmers and others drive to the farm daily during the 
berry season, many coming from a distance of ten miles or 
more. Farmers' wives for miles around the farm can many 
quarts of the berries annually. Fourteen of the berries re- 
ceived filled a two-pound candy box." 
These are typical instances which we could 
multiply almost without number. They serve to 
show that the claims we make' for the superior 
excellence of our plants are fully borne out in ac- 
tual experience of growers all the country over. 
What others have done we have every reason to 
