GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 11 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
Our Insurance Against Insects and Plant Diseases 
THE work of spraying our plants goes on continuously from setting time until mulching time, using arsenate of lead 
and Bordeaux mixture. While the illustration shows but one sprayer, we have three large machines for this work. 
This year we sprayed our hundred acres of plants ten times, copper-plating every leaf as well as coating them with 
arsenate. Figure this up and you will see that it equals a thousand acres of spraying, and to do this required 450 barrels 
of spraying fluid. It is needless to say more than this about the health and cleanliness of Kellogg's Thoroughbreds. 
This is another reason why our plants are the least costly of all plants. 
White Grub. — After the white grub once at- 
tacks strawberry plants about the only thing to 
do is to dig down to the roots, find the grub 
and kill him. The wilting of the plant indi- 
cates that the white grub is at work on the 
roots. Generally this is too late to save the 
particular plant, but by killing the grub you 
prevent his further ravages. The underground 
habit of the grub makes it difficult to control, 
and for this reason we give you suggestions 
that, if carefully followed, will protect you 
from its depredations. Avoid setting straw- 
berry plants in freshly plowed timothy sod. 
The white grub delights to feed on the wiry 
roots of timothy. Blue grass and clover sod 
seem to be free, practically, from these pests. 
We have set many acres of strawberries in 
the spring on clover and blue-grass sod which 
was plowed the previous fall without expe- 
riencing any difficulty with the grub. Do 
not use manure that has lain in piles through- 
out the summer. Just such places is where 
the May beetle and June bug deposit their 
eggs, from which the grub is hatched. It will 
be safe to use such manure, however, if it is 
hauled out and spread over the ground during 
hard-freezing weather. Hogs and fowls given 
free access to the manure, and allowing them 
to follow after the plow when breaking up 
the ground, will prove helpful, as they are 
very fond of grubs and other underground in- 
sects. Fresh manure is safe to apply at any 
time so far as the white grub is concerned. 
Frequent rotation of crops and fall plowing 
also are preventives against grubs, and the 
more fowls that follow the plow the better. 
Black Ants. — The black ant itself does no 
particular injury to the strawberrj', but their 
presence is an indication that the aphis (lice) 
is at work on the roots of the plant. The ants 
carry the lice from the roots of one plant to 
another, and while the lice suck the juice from 
the roots and tender parts of the plants, the 
ants stay close by to get the honey-like sub- 
stance given off by the lice. Thorough cul- 
tivation will drive the ants to other quarters, 
as they do not enjoy working in freshly stirred 
or loose soil. Neither do they like to be dis- 
turbed in their work. By chasing away the 
ants you also rid your fields of the lice, as 
they cannot by themselves travel from plant 
to plant. In fact, thorough cultivation aids 
There never was a time when so much money was being made in strawberry production as now. It presents a field for 
enterprise and development, such as is offered by few lines of endeavor. 
