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GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1912 by R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers. Mich. 
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BI-SEXUAL FLOWERS TAKEN FROM A KELLOGG PLANT 
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have two purposes in presentinpr this remarkable illustration. First, to show the perfect develonment of flnw»r<. „,-r. 
fi.ll ^ I'l?,"*^- Note how evenly the anthers are distributed around the pistils wS forr^ the center 
full development of the anthers which contain the pollen that fertilizes the pistils. Note alsoX completeTvlfonm^^^ Iht 
p.st.l cones, wh.ch .8 the very foundation of the berry itself. Second, to make clear the meaninrora Wsexuarwhfch havp hn?^ 
female and male organs, namely, anthers and pistils. Compare the blossoms with thoseTthe piSiUates on the op^ 
condition and were fine plants. We planted them out the same 
afternoon they were received and they are all in fine condi- 
M. E. Campbell. 
North Manchester, Ind., May 29, 1912. "Received plants 
yesterday and they were in fine condition." Ira Kreider. 
Lombard. 111., June 1, 1912. "My plants arrived yesterday 
afternoon in excellent shape. If they don't grow it certain- 
ly won't be your fault. Thank you for your promptness." 
C. Bernard Austin. 
We wish to say, however, that we do not ad- 
vocate late shipments. Indeed, we urge our cus- 
tomers to follow whenever possible the sugges- 
tions appearing under the heading "Heeling in 
the Plants." But we refer to the success with 
late shipments under our new way of packing for 
the benefit of those who for one reason or anoth- 
er are unable to set out their plants at an earlier 
date. 
Our Fall-Bearing Varieties 
IN response to many demands from our customers 
for plants of Fall-bearing varieties of straw- 
berries, we set a generous area in the Spring of 
1912 of the three leading varieties of this class, 
namely, Americus, Superb and Patagonia. The 
Superb plants cost us $150.00 per thousand, and 
the Americus $75.00 per thousand plants. 
While we have a very fine stock of these plants, 
we have decided to limit the number of plants 
which we will sell to a single customer to 100. We 
do this for two reasons. First, because we have 
put the price for these plants very low, considering 
the expense to which we have gone to produce 
them, and if we did not restrict the number a few 
growers would gladly take our entire stock at the 
price we offer them. This would result in disap- 
pointment to thousands of our customers who 
would like to test our strain of these plants. An- 
other reason is that we do not feel that our cus- 
tomers should be encouraged to make too heavy 
an investment in the Fall-bearing varieties until 
after they have had opportunity to test them out 
in a small way. We believe that 100 plants will 
give every grower a chance to discover whether 
these varieties are to be profitable. 
Judged from the way they have fruited in the 
Fall with us, we believe these plants will be profit- 
able. There is no doubt they will fruit both in 
the Spring and in the Fall and yield a fine quality 
of fruit. We hope every customer will purchase 
a few of these plants and give them a thorough 
test. 
Through August and September it required a 
considerable force of men to keep the bloom and 
green berries picked off both the Superb and 
Americus varieties, which adds to our confidence 
that they will produce very large Fall crops of 
high-class fruit. 
Courting Trouble 
WOULD it not be a foolish thing to do to invite 
into your home some treacherous enemy 
whom you knew sooner or later would de- 
stroy the happiness and prosperity of that home? 
But this is exactly what some strawberry growers 
are doing in many of the best strawberry districts 
of this country by fruiting their plants year after 
year until the plants become completely exhaust- 
ed. And when a new field is set they use alley 
plants from old fruiting beds which carry with 
them the eggs and larvae of insects, and these 
eventually will drive the grower out of business. 
By these injurious methods growers not only in- 
vite theirmostdang-erous enemies into theirfields, 
but they make conditions most favorable for their 
comfort and increase. Government statistics show 
that the most serious enemies to strawberries are 
the crown borer, the crown miner, the root borer 
and the strawberry weevil, and that these insects 
will almost invariably be found in the fields where 
plants have fruited longer than two years. 
Dr. John B. Smith, a leading authority on ento- 
mology, who has written one of the most com- 
plete books on all classes of insects, says (seepage 
213 of his book) that the insects mentioned are 
found in fields which have fruited for several 
years and that the only way to insure the grower 
against them is to allow the plants to fruit two 
years only, and by the rotation of crops and the 
use of plants that are free from insect attack. 
He says also that where a two-year fruiting rota- 
