GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
The World's Champion Ear of Corn 
tomato, produced by a strong, healthy vine, 
and from a vine that produced all good to- 
matoes, than to take seed from an undersized 
tomato, grown on a weak and undeveloped 
vine,, and one that produced only a few in- 
ferior tomatoes? 
And if you were going to plant potatoes, 
would you not rather have tubers which were 
taken from a strong hill that produced a 
goodly number of perfect tubers, than to use 
seed of unknown origin? 
And if you were going to plant corn, would 
you not prefer an ear with a small cob, filled 
evenly with well-developed kernels from end 
to end, with a record back of it, than to plant 
seed from a nubbin ? 
The answer to these questions would be : 
Give us the best seed grown from ideal mother 
plants. The decision as to strawberry plants 
would undoubtedly be the same. In view of 
this fact we deem it unnecessary to occupy 
space in proving the superiority of strawberry 
plants which have been selected for a series of 
years with an aim to improve and strengthen 
the vigor of the plant, as well as quality and 
quantity of fruit, over plants which have been 
grown on the hit-or-miss plan. 
Did you ever watch an expert marksman 
use a rifle? He first decides upon the object. 
Then with steady nerve he aims at his object, 
and the gun is not discharged until the barrel 
is on a direct line with the object at which he 
is aiming. Tlie Kellogg Company has a cer- 
tain object in view — the best strawberry plant, 
the highest quality of berries and the most of 
them, and, like the marksman, we are not aim- 
ing on the hit-or-miss plan. By using mother 
plants showing the most points of excellence, 
and from these selecting plants of the most 
ideal type, we have succeeded in developing 
a strain of thoroughbred plants whicli have 
won the world's highest fruiting record. 
We esteem ourselves especially fortunate in 
being able to present herewith two remarkable 
object lessons in breeding and selection — one 
drawn from the animal kingdom, the other 
from the vegetable kingdom. Through the 
courtesy of W. J. Gillett, of Rosendale, Wis., 
the well-known breeder of Holstein-Friesian 
cattle, we are able to present not only the 
world's most wonderful cow, considered from 
the viewpoint of yield of both milk and butter- 
fat, but are able also to present halftone en- 
gravings of the ancestors of Colantha 4th 's 
Johanna. No one can study the conformation of 
these three ancestors of the world's champion, 
and note the extraordinary development in all 
of them of the dairy characteristics, without 
realizing at once that Colantha 4th's Johanna 
is the legitimate, aye, inevitable, product of 
such an ancestry. And the observer will note 
how these dairy characteristics are emphasized 
in succeeding generations, a fact indicating the 
progress made as the selection was carried on 
up to the wonderful consummation noted in the 
champion of the world. 
But quite as interesting is the result of 
breeding and selection revealed in the ear of 
corn shown herewith, and which is acknowl- 
edged by the world's greatest corn judges to 
be the finest and most perfect ear ever grown. 
It won the Alice tropliy at the Iowa Agricul- 
tural contest in January, 1907, and so keen was 
the interest to secure it that the owner bid 
$150.00 for it in order that he might keep it 
for propagating purposes. The ear is lOyi 
inches long, 7% inches in circumference at a 
line three inches from the butt, and 6% inches 
at a point two inches from the tip. It weighs 
19 ounces and carries 22 rows of kernels. 
Mr. Pascal, who grew this car of corn, 
did not step at one bound into the front rank 
of corn breeders. He visited the International 
Livestock Show at Chicago in 1901, and com- 
Set out your plants promptly upon receiving them. Heel them in if you are compelled to do so, but get them into 
their permanent home at the earliest moment possible. 
