GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1914, by K. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
A CARI/OAD OF KELLOGG THOROUGHBRED PEDIGREE PLANTS 
73 crates, each crate containing- 24 quarts, making 
a total of 1,752 quarts. This doesn't include the 
quantities of berries canned at home and given 
away, nor the berries that were left on the vines 
after the patch was abandoned when the picking 
grew scarce. The berries were beautiful. Here 
is my cash sales' account: 
18 crates @ $1.75 ■ $31.50 
2 crates @ 1.6.'-i 3.30 
53 crates @ 1.50 79.50 
Total, $114.30 
Expenses incurred ■ 15.20 
Net cash results, $99.10 
I wish to place another much larger order with 
you for plants for setting next year. 
Inez A. Webber. 
Reed's Ferry, N. H., Feb. 15, 1914. — From the 
200 plants set out in 1912, and after the frosts 
had killed the greater part of the first bloom, I 
sold 160 quarts of berries beside using all that 
my family required. I then mowed off the bed, 
and in the fall of 1913 had a beautiful strawberry 
plot with which to start the next season. 
Mrs. D. W. Sullivan. 
Webster Groves, Mo., June 25, 1914. — The 5,000 
strawberry plants bought from you last spring, 
arrived April 12, the day after shipment was 
made. They were in first-class condition. It 
is a smart way you have of packin.!;- them. Have 
cultivated them since setting- about every ten 
days. They have had no rain since April 27 and 
now (June 25) they look just grand. 
Mrs. E. L. Nollan. 
We might go on indefinitely multiplying 
Instances of this sort, but the selections from 
letters above given will indicate the point we 
desire to make. No woman having free access 
to a plot of ground but can, while preserving 
her own dignity and continuing to maintain 
the home, make a field of strawberries a source 
of self-support, and in a manner befitting her 
nature; and, by expanding her field of en- 
deavor, make her strawberries the source of 
a generous income. 
OUT of his long experience In strawberry 
work, B. H. Cooley of Wichita, Kansas, 
says that the best varieties for the Southwest 
are Splendid, Warfield, Senator Dunlap, Bu- 
bach. Sample and Aroma. This statement is 
based upon a careful test of 150 varieties, cov- 
ering a period of twelve years. He adds that 
Warfield leads as a money maker, and that . 
Aroma is the best of the late varieties in that 
section. 
Irrigating the Strawberry 
ONE of the very interesting developments 
in the strawberry field relates to their 
production under irrigation. It is safe to say 
that for every crate of berries grown under 
that method ten years ago there are at least 
fifty crates grown today. For irrigation no 
longer is confined to the so-called "dry" regions 
of our country — irrigation now is practiced on 
an important scale in every state in the Union. 
Gardeners, who produce intensively and who 
cannot afford a short crop once in five or even 
in ten years, have found complete insurance in 
an irrigation plant that supplements Nature 
and which, in some respects, excels Nature. 
During the great drought of 1913 those who 
were fortunate enough previously to have in- 
stalled a plant found themselves taking larger 
profits than ever, while their less enterprising 
neighbors were almost "bowled out" by the 
severity of the long and super-heated term. 
One of these fortunate ones who is a member 
of the big "Kellogg Family" of strawberry 
growers, reports that in an ordinary year he 
"made enough money to pay tor his irrigating 
plant from the berries he picked after the 
fields of other growers in his region were 
completely exhausted of fruit." This friend has 
an over-head system, and his fields are 
"rained" upon just as Nature performs the task 
whenever he wills to do so. All he has to do 
is to set the gasoline engine in motion, turn on 
the spigot — and the field enjoys the refresh- 
ment and tonic effect which water alone may 
supply to thirsty plants and suffering fruit. 
Out in the mighty "dry belt" of this big land 
of ours vast fields of strawberries are grown, 
and all along the Pacific coast strawberries 
ripen from early in the season to very late. 
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