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GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1912 by R M. Kellogg Co.. Three Rivers. Mich. 
KELLOGG THOROUGHBRED PLANTS GROWING AMONG THE COLORADO MOUNTAINS 
T^J^ view represents a field of our plants growing at Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Elmer E Lucas manairpr of nno of 
_» finest hotels in the country-the Hotel Colorado in the town above named-grows strtwterries S'k^K^^ 
for his guests, but also for the market, and he writes us that in the sp-ison of ho rJrtt„Ii ii onn^ Plants not only 
plants To indicate how rapidly they are sold he tellfus" that'l "locaiyrcrry hiull-ol^ntt^cl '-^^^^ 
when the store opened m the mornmg and by nine o'clock all were sold out. and the price paid for them Vas $3 TO rr„t. i?. 
Bet a very large number of our plants in 1912. and under date of August 15 writes as follow,- '•Th»^^tf.;;vi^^ • ^ 
you are doing finely, especially Jocunda. which were received f rom y?ur Twin Fal^s brancnim Penri^l'^nH ""1 
the next best, and I am looking for great things from all of these viieties"'" We ar" Mn LueL' wHl' nof bfdTs^rpoLTed! 
the matted-row system, and not longer than three 
years, where grown in the hill system, we can 
assure them that no insects ever will do you any 
injury, even though you are in a district where 
your neighbors' fields are infested with them. 
No other crop is more easily controlled and 
kept entirely free from insect pests than the 
strawberry, where the simplest forms of good cul- 
tivation are observed as above outlined. And we 
know it to be a fact that there is more money 
made in the strawberry business, when fields are 
allowed to fruit only two years, than where they 
are allowed to fruit for a longer period of time; 
for the rotation of crops keeps the soil in a state 
of high fertility, and, as all authorities agree, it 
is the old plants that cause all the trouble. 
As to Pruning Plants 
IN our 1911 book we advised our customers that w>,.„ Colorado at Glenwood Springs, Colorado 
we should nrune all strawherrvnlanto «b;r.r.oJ^ Where Kellogg Co's. Thoroughbred Pedigree berries are cx- 
we snouiu prune an sirawoerry plants shipped clusively served. A delightful place to rest and recreate, 
fromourfarms. So many growers wrote us that 
they preferred to follow their own ideas in this tomers that we should prune plants only when 
regard that in our 1912 book we advised our cus- requested to do so. From letters received from 
