GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1914, by B. M. Kellogg Co., Three Klvers, Mich. 
PROGRESSIVE AS IT FRUITS IN AUTUMN 
SOME of our friends find it difficult to realize that tiiere really has been developed an order of strawberry 
plants that actually yield two full crops of fi-uit in a single season. But the fact lias now been so fully 
demonstrated that few skeptics remain. We show at the top of these two pages Just how the fruit of the 
two crops — Spring and Autumn — differentiate on the same vines. The variety is Progressive, and it is riglitly 
named, for its introduction was one of the really important events in the strawberry world. Progressive is a 
cross of the Senator Dunlap witli Pan-American, the earliest of the ever-bearers. The Dunlap strain is 
very clearly marked, especially by the immense crops of fruit the Progressive plants yield. It is doubtful 
if any other of the ever-bearers ever will attain to the yields that this great bisexual ever-bearer turns off. 
Every grower should give this variety a thorough testing-out. Progressive is produced on all of our farms. 
the spring, ■when vegetation is starting up, 
the mulching should be separated directly over 
each row. This will he done easily with the 
fork. Just make an opening through the mulch- 
ing that lies upon the plants, and the plants 
will have no difficulty in coming through. This 
will leave the mulching close up to the plant, 
thus making a clean floor for the berries to 
ripen upon. The moisture in the mulching will 
aid the plants, and the presence of the straw 
will discourage weed growth about them. It 
is important that the mulching be handled just 
right, both when it is applied and when it is 
removed. 
As to kind of materials for mulching, any 
straw will serve excellently; so will marsh 
hay, sown corn, sorghum pomace, or swamp 
grass. Our Atlantic coast friends find the 
sea-weed a satisfactory mulching material. 
Heeling-in the Plants 
THERE is a direct relationship between the 
quality of plants one buys and the quality 
of fruit the grower will have to offer his traae. 
We assume at the outset that you have pur- 
chased the best plants possible to secure. Nat- 
urally, then, you intend to take the best pos- 
sible care of them. If you are not prepared 
to set the plants upon their arrival, you should 
immediately open up the crates, take out the 
plants and heel them in. That is, dig a V- 
shaped trench in shaded ground, making it 
sufficiently deep to take in the i-oots without 
curling them up. Loosen the raffia cord that 
binds the bunches and set the plants in the 
trench. Draw the soft, moist earth up around 
the crowns and wet the plants liberally. If 
they are warm when opened, the unnatural heat 
will slowly be drawn out and the plants will 
be all the better for having been heeled in. 
Do not fail to act promptly. Neglect for an 
hour may be fatal under some conditions. Con- 
sideration always should be given to the sea- 
son and weather conditions as to the length 
of time they are permitted to remain in the 
trench. In the early spring, when the air is 
cool and moisture abundant, it may be safe 
to leave them in the trench for days, and 
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