GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1914, by B. M. KeUogg Co., Three Klvers, MlcU. 
lltANK ULMJiK S STRA^VBERRY FIELD AT THREE RIVERS 
JUST across the way to the west of the Kellogg Farms at Three Rivers is the field of Prank Hunter, who 
" has been a successful strawberry grower for more than twenty years. He does not hesitate to say that 
our plants are the best in the world, and he declares that ■'Kellogg's Prize" is the noblest variety ever 
originated. Mr. Hunter is an adept in the work, and always tops the market at home and in nearby cities 
with his product. The field itself Is the most eloquent testimony to his great ability as a strawberry grower 
the quality and productive powers in the 
plants propagated from strong, vigorous, 
healthy mother plants. 
It is gratifying, indeed, to have this com- 
plete confirmation of the scientific accuracy 
of our position and methods, but more than 
all that is the satisfaction we talce in the 
knowledge that the world has at last begun 
to realize the great truth and that there no 
longer is the slightest excuse for the setting 
of another orchard to drone trees or another 
field of strawberries to unproductive plants. 
No breeder of live stock but knows that 
the super-milch cow comes from a fine strain 
of milkers. There is no live-stock breeder 
in the world today but comprehends this 
truth. Is there any reason why the laws 
of nature shall not operate in the same man- 
ner in the case of all forms of plant life? 
Yet there are those who do not hesitate 
to set great orchards of trees that require 
many years to develop into bearers of fruit, 
only to find at the end of all their invest- 
ment of labor and time and money and costly 
land — all this has been lost to them Just 
because they do not obey the simplest laws 
of generous Mother Nature. All over this 
country today are vast orchards that yield no 
compensating crops of fruit, because drone 
trees predominate. This could be changed 
within a few years of time and every orchard 
be made to produce generous crops of high- 
class fruit simply by adopting the methods 
we have employed for more than thirty years 
on the Kellogg farms. 
Why then persist in setting out strawberry 
plants of unknown ancestry, or trees, or 
flowers, or any other thing, that does not 
come to you with the absolute assurance 
of quality and capacity for large production ? 
A Word of Appreciation 
TN presenting the 1915 issue of "Great 
■'■ Crops of Strawberries" we think it due 
our patrons that we give expression to the 
sincere gratitude we feel because of their 
faithful frindship and more than generous 
patronage, as well as for the countless words 
and acts of courtesy which have come to us 
from them. 
The spirit of friendliness that is shown us ; 
the generous co-operation that renders the 
dullest business a source of inspiration to 
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