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GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1912 by R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
HELEN DAVIS PLANTS GROWING ON THE PLACE OF THE ORIGINATOR 
fPHIS great variety is growing steadily in popular favor. We take pleasure in presenting this illustration of a line of plants 
* destined to be of great value to the strawberry world. Note the fine rows, the high and beautiful and strong foliage, in- 
tended by nature to carry the immense crops of fine fruit this variety yields. No other variety has won more or firmer friends. 
Great Crops of Strawberries and How to Grow Them 
IN the second article in this book, which is en- 
titled "Building Kellogg Plants," we havedis- 
cussed the importance of proper soil conditions 
and have quite exhaustively set forth the methods 
we follow to produce our famous Thoroughbred 
Pedigree plants. We describe 
Essentials to therein our use of various forms 
Strawberry Success fertilizer and explain the func- 
tions performed by nitrogen, potassium, phos- 
phorus, humus, and lime, and our use of the 
most scientific methods in every way to produce 
desired results in the form of vigorous, thrifty 
and productive strawberry plants. Now, the same 
general principles obtain in producing fruit from 
the plants that apply in the production of the 
plants themselves. But, as we produce plants 
for something like 100,000 customers, and as 
they are to be set out and grown under all sorts 
of conditions — in heavy clay soils, in sandy loam 
and clay loam, in almost pure sand, in the rich 
black soil of the Western prairies, in the volcanic 
ash of the Inter-Mountain states, and under vary- 
ing conditions of soil and climate in the trop- 
ics, Asia and in Australasia, and in European 
countries — we follow out our methods with a de- 
gree of elaboration that is hardly necessary in the 
case of the strawberi'y grower who has the ad- 
vantage of starting out his work with plants of 
the Kellogg quality. Therefore, while we advise 
our patrons carefully to read what we ha' e said 
in the article to which we refer, in order that they 
may have a clear understanding of the nature and 
value of the steps we take to insure high quality 
in our plants, we would not have them think it 
necessary to be so painstakingin the work of grow- 
ing strawberries, for as a matter of fact there 
is nothing more simple in the world than the pro- 
duction of strawberries, provided intelligent care 
be given to soil preparation, selection of plants 
and proper cultural methods. 
LET us consider at the outset the matter of 
soil, and let it be understood that strawber- 
ries will grow successfully under as great a va- 
riety of conditions as will potatoes or turnips or 
cabbage or any other of the commonest sorts of 
vegetables or grains. In a word, 
your soil is just the kind of soil Strawberries Thrive 
in which to grow strawberries 
whether it be sand, sandy loam, clay loam, clay, 
black prairie soil or volcanic ash. Indeed, the soil 
may be likened to a feeding trough. It doesn't 
make any difference whether you feed the hogs 
from an oak trough or a pine trough— the result 
would be identical in either case. The soil is only 
a medium through which the plants receive their 
food. Therefore, the important thing for the 
grower to do is to see that his soil, whatever its 
nature, is properly supplied with the elements 
necessary to the feeding and growth of the plants. 
Once we get this thought clearly in mind the 
whole matter of crop production is simplified, and 
each grower may be confident that his soil will 
do just as well as anybody's else soil if it be in 
the proper condition for the sustenance and de- 
velopment of plant life. In one word, the ideal 
soil conditions for successful strawberry culture 
may be had almost anywhere in almost any well- 
