GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1914, by R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
HELEN DAVIS, ONE OF THE GREATEST OF EARLY VARIETIES 
INTRODUCED by the R. M. Kellogg Company In 1911. this great variety has grown into general popularity. 
What we could not know when it was first offered as to its universal nature we have since leai'ned to our 
great satisfaction, for not only has Helen Davis become a leading favorite in almost every section of the 
eastern and middle states, but has shown its stamina and fruiting power in the coldest regions of the North- 
west, and is a prime favorite in the ii-rigation districts of the inter-mountain states, being everywhere recog- 
nized as a drought resister, Stoi-ies of its prolil^c yields come to us in many congratulatory letters from 
customers representing every section of the United States. Of great size, beautiful in color, unsurpassed as 
a yielder of high-quality fruit, Helen Davis holds a place in the strawberry world few varieties enjoy. Our 
friends may set heavily of this variety with full confidence. Grown at our Three Rivers and Twin Falls farms. 
themselves, and will encourage strong and 
fruitful plants. 
Controlling Insects and Diseases 
ONE of the best ways to control insects is 
by rotation of crops and clean cultivation. 
Carelessness and neglect on the part of the 
grower is the cause of most of their troubles 
that come from insects. Weeds and grass, 
when allowed to grow among the plants, make 
an ideal place for insects to hibernate, and in 
such places they breed very fast. Such Insects 
as crown miners, crown borers, root borers, 
weevil, beetles, grubs and aphides always are 
found in foul fields, and these Insects are sel- 
dom found where intensive cultural methods 
are employed and where crop rotation is fol- 
lowed. 
Plants taken from the fruiting bed for set- 
ting Increase the troubles of the strawberry 
grower, reduce his crop and lessen the fruit- 
ing capacity of the plants, and carry Insects 
from the old field to the new field only to 
propagate new broods of these enemies to suc- 
cessful horticulture. 
Then, some growers allow their fields ot 
plants to fruit from three to five years, permit- 
ting the plants to run at will, and seldom pay 
any attention to removing the weeds and grass. 
Such places afford Insects a splendid oppor- 
tunity to get full control. , 
No other fruit crop with which we are ac- 
quainted can be grown with less trouble against 
insects than strawberries when properly 
handled. The Kellogg way for controlling in- 
sects is to discard the fruiting bed after it has 
fruited two years. The ground is then planted 
to some other crop, and we never take plants 
from a fruiting bed to be set into another field. 
The Kellogg plants always are propagated in a 
special bed prepared for that purpose. 
During our thirty-one years of experience in 
this line of work, we have learned that it is 
practically impossible to grow plants and fruit 
from the same plants. When a grower takes 
plants from his fruiting bed, the roots of the 
plants which are left for fruiting are injured to 
the extent of greatly reducing the crop ot fruit, 
and the plants which are taken for setting are 
never as strong as plants which are grown in 
soil especially prepared for plant development 
and are cultivated especially for plant growth. 
In our travels through different strawberry 
sections and in observing the different methods 
employed by different growers, we find that 
growers who follow the Kellogg way selaom 
are annoyed by insects or plant diseases, and 
they are satisfied with the returns they get 
from their strawberry crops. While growers 
who do not rotate and who do not practice in- 
tensive cultural methods generally are dissat- 
isfied with results, because weeds, grass and 
insects greatly have reduced their crops of 
fruit. 
Growers who set the Kelloeg Pedieree plants 
and follow the Kellogg way not only grow 
larger crops of fruit, but these crops are 
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