GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyrlgrht 1914, by B. M. KellogK Co., Three Rivers, ftUch. . 
B. M. KELLOGG CO.'S SEUECTION BEJ> AT THREE RIVERS, MICH. 
THIS Illustration shows our method of selection of plants for our propagating fields. Every variety Is 
staked, and each Individual mother plant carefully observed with a view to Improving each variety by 
selecting from only those that show the most points of excellence. Selection and restriction is what made 
the Kellogg plants famous. No drones among the Kellogg Pedigree plants — every plant is a heavy fruiter. 
visit from Lee Blynn Scott, an old-time 
graduate of the Michigan Agricultural Col- 
lege, who is now associated with A. D. 
Shamel in one of the most remarkable lines 
of horticultural work ever undertaken — a 
work that is being conducted with great satis- 
faction to the fruit interests of California. 
Prof. Shaniol has for the last fifteen years 
been recognized as one of the prominent 
scientists connected with the United States 
Department of Agriculture at "Washington. 
Some years ago he was sent to California 
to make investigations and experiments along 
the line of field agriculture. While look- 
ing over a very large orange orchard he was 
informed by the owner that all of the trees 
on that great plantation were the olTspring 
of two trees, and that it was the most per- 
fect orchard of its kind in California, which 
was equivalent to saying that it was the most 
perfect orchard in the world. 
Mr. Shamel became so interested in that 
statement that he began a series of investiga- 
tions, the result of which has taken him 
entirely out of the line of field agriculture 
and into the work of advanced horticulture, 
where he has succeeded in accomplishing 
a wonderful work in the improvement of 
orchard conditions throughout that great 
fruit state. 
When Mr. Scott called upon us in June 
he was not a little surprised to learn that 
the E. M. Kellogg Company had been prac- 
ticing for more than thirty years the identi- 
cal methods which are now accomplishing 
such great results in California, 
Every long-time patron of this company 
knows that year after year we have in- 
sisted that the very foundation of the 
strength and fruiting powers of the straw- 
berry plant lies in the selection of mother 
plants and their method of propagation; in 
other words, that only mother plants of 
highest fraiting powers .should be trans- 
planted with a view to reproduction. 
Mr. Scott told us that this was exactly 
the position now held by .scientific horticul- 
turists who were engaged in the work of im- 
proving orchard conditions in California, and 
cited the fact that both among the citrus 
and deciduous orchards of California it has 
been demonstrated beyond all doubt that 
those trees which make the largest quantity 
of budding wood are the least prolific in 
fruit, and that thore trees that make the 
smallest quantity of budding wood are those 
which yield the heaviest crops of fruit. 
This, as we say, confirms the position 
we have held and demonstrated for so many 
years. 
We always have insi-sted that plant life 
of all kinds reproduces it.self; that where 
plants are propagated in the ordinary way 
drone plants predominate, because drone 
mother plants with weak fruit-producing 
organisms multiply runners more rapidly 
than mother ^ lants with strong and perfectly 
developed fruit-producing organisms. This 
explains why the common grown strawberry 
plants deteriorate, or "run out," as many 
growers express it. The same law of re- 
production insures a steady improvement in 
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