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GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1912 by R. M. Kellogg Co. Three Rivers, Mich. 
A BLOCK OF KELLOGG'S PRIZE PLANTS 
TC,^?tTo "l"hf ??&'n'd1L"'Ji [°?f;^^^^^^^ ^-P-^ I"'-- -t'^ the uni. 
When this photograph was taken thTpIaMrwere a foorhf^h wlTn^^ anywhere thriftier plants than these, 
they are much higher, of course. It is from pTants of this extrao ""'^^a'^ ''I ^i""""' ^here grown in hills 
did crops of KellogK's Prize berries are gathered As the c^rfndfcate, we ih=lf 1'' P°==^^^«d great vitality that the splen- 
the interest already aroused in this greaf variety mates^rt^i^-p'omtt^'hlt:^^^^^^^^^^^ 
more than two and one-half years of correspond- 
ence, we had the pleasure of sending to Mr. Movie 
the amount of money he had paid for the plants 
Under date of January 9, 1912, Mr. Moyle writes 
as follows: 
"I have just arrived home after an absence of six weeks 
and found your letter of Dec. 19th with check inclosed await- 
ing me. It IS certamly owine to your valuable assistance in 
so persistently urgmg my claim the refund has been made by 
the express companies. Please accept my hearty thanks for 
your kindness m this respect." 
One customer writes as follows concerning the 
manner in which we inform growers in relation 
to the practical side of strawberry growing: 
Waltham, Mass., Feb. 22, 1912. "I wrote to one of the larg- 
est strawberry growers in New Jersey about the same as I 
wrote you. He sent back a letter with three lines in it I like 
the way you answered my letter, for you wrote in reply just 
what I needed to know. 1 believe there is nothing like Tl^or- 
oughbrcd plants." j. b. Nichols. 
We mention these cases, not for the purpose of 
boasting, but because we believe our customers 
will be glad to know that they are not to be left 
alone to fight for their rights in such instances as 
are given above. 
the shade made by its abundant foliage the ber- 
ries ripen without a suggestion of sunscald. 
You should not fail to order generously of this 
most remarkable variety for setting in the spring 
of 1913. Kellogg's Prize plants will make the man 
who grows them the "first fiddler" in his region. 
Looking After Customers' Interests 
SOMETIMES, as is true of all concerns doing 
large shipping business, transportation com- 
panies fail to perform their part of the con- 
tract, or through delay, neglect or accident, plants 
fail to reach their destination in proper condition. 
Whenever such troubles occur we insist upon our 
customer's right to be repaid for the actual loss 
sustained, and succeed in many cases in securing 
an entirely satisfactory adjustment. Two years 
ago we sent a large consignment of plants to a 
Washington customer. It took two years for us to 
effect a settlement, but we finally succeeded in 
having the express company return to this cus- 
tomer $60.00 for plants injured by improper de- 
livery. 
Another case in point is that of Harry Moyle 
of Richmond Hill, Ont. In the spring of 1909 we 
shipped Mr. Moyle plants to the value of $22.96. 
By some error the express company carried these 
plants more than a thousand miles out of their 
way, and they were several weeks on the road, 
with the result that the plants were ruined 
when they reached their destination. We per- 
sistently demanded a settlement of the case in 
Mr. Moyle's behalf, and December 19, 1911, after 
One Cause of Our Rapid Growth 
SATISFIED and enthusiastic customers are the 
very foundations of the success of the R. M 
Kellogg Co. Thousands of letters, attesting 
the merits of our Thoroughbred plants, come to us 
every year, and it is the writers of these letters 
who buy from us year after year many millions of 
strawberry plants. Nor do they stop with that 
but very many of them are kind enough to tell 
