SMALL FRUITS AND HOW HE GROWS THEM 
I insert the following clipping from the Three 
Rivers Daily Hustler of Oct. 4, 1900: 
" This morning Mr. R. M. Kellogg was subpoenxd to 
appear before the United States Court in Washington to 
testify as an expert on the tillage of the soil (in the cele- 
brated patent infringement case of weeding machines). 
There are few men who have piven plant life and tillage so 
much careful study. In this line his writings and lectures 
have given him a national reputation. His farm here is the 
admiration of the community and proves his ability to in- 
struct others." 
NBW VARIBTIBS. 
Our experimental grounds for testing new varie- 
ties are carefully conducted. Parties having new 
seedlings of great promise may send them here and 
have them carefully tested and secure a full report 
of their behavior, and if they prove valuable we 
can greatly aid you in introducing them. 
They may rest assured that no plants will be 
propagated from them except to improve them by 
our system of selection and restrictiou for our own 
new trial beds. 
None will be allowed to leave the ground 
without their consent. It requires at least twenty- 
five plants for a fair trial. We shall test many 
hundred seedlings originated through our thor- 
oughbred plants and hope soon to offer some of 
great excellence, but they must be thoroughly 
tested under many conditions before they can be 
offered to the public. 
We received five packages of plants in one day 
last year without any name or postoffice mark 
which would enable me to identify them. One of 
these varieties proves exceedingly promising, but I 
do not know who sent it. Write your name and 
postoflSce address on the package and also a letter 
at the same time giving a history of the plants. 
A l5 QUART CRATE FILLED WITH BOXES. 
BASKETS AND BERRY BOXES. 
For many years past we have bought all our 
fruit packages of the Wells, Higman Co., of 
St. Joseph, Mich., and knowing them to be 
among the most extensive and reliable manufac- 
turers in their line, I take pleasure in recommending 
them to any one who may be in need of any berry 
boxes or other shipping packages. Their 
goods are strictly first class, and fruit growers who 
are not acquainted with this firm should correspond 
with them They will mail their illustrated cata- 
logue free on application. 
VARIETIES OF STRAWBERRRIES. 
The great divcr.<;ity of soils and degrees of fertil- 
ity as well as peculiar methods of cultivation 
afioptcd by different growers make it extremely 
difficult to recommend particular varieties. 
Suppose you and a neighbor order twenty 
best varieties each and put them under the modes 
of cultivation recommended in this book. You 
would find one or more sorts which did better than 
all the others and this would be the variety you 
should make your leader; but when you came to 
compare notes with your neighbor you would not 
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be likely to reach an agreement as to which were 
the best sorts. There is a great difference of 
opinions as to which is the best variety even on. 
the same ground. 
You need several varieties, not only for 
testing to determine the ones most profitable, but 
the tastes of your customers will vary fully as much 
as your plants. You must be prepared to hold 
their patronage by offering them just what they 
want throughout tlie season. 
In making up this list of varieties, I have, 
through my extensive correspondence and pub- 
lished reports of government experiment stations, 
taken special pains to discard what are called local 
varieties or those which succeed only in a few 
localities. Many of the discarded sorts were pop- 
ular over wide areas, but we have better varieties 
to take their places. 
We have a large number of sorts now on 
trial and we shall breed them up, and if they 
develop better qualities we will substitute them for 
some of the kinds we now offer and thus keep only 
the cream of all the leading varieties on our lists. 
It shall be my business to visit the great 
fruit centers during the coming summer and study 
Gandy. 
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