GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 19 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
Thoroughbreds in the Home Garden of H. L. Gill, Schoolcraft, Mich. 
THE above illustration shows the farm garden strawberry bed of our customer, H. L. Gill, of Schoolcraft, Michigan, 
and we could scarcely select a more typical or more inspiring picture to indicate what our Thoroughbreds do in the 
family garden when set in good soil and given good cultivation. When Mr. Gill visited our farm he said he believed 
he had the finest family patch in the country and invited us to have a photograph made of it. As the illustration shows, 
we accepted the invitation of Mr. Gill: and we can hardly disagree with his estimate of the beauty of his rows of 
strawberries. And any farm home in this country can have its equal in beauty and productiveness. 
of plant tissues and in contributing to growth. 
They must be worked over or formed into 
organic compounds. This process of elabora- 
tion takes place in the green parts, chief!)' in 
the leaves and in the presence of sunlight. 
When the food has been elaborated it can 
be utilized, through further changes, for the 
building of the tissues, and is distributed 
throughout all parts of the plant, even to the 
roots from whence part of it came. 
The process of changing the inorganic ma- 
terials into organic materials, or assimilation, 
takes place only in daylight, but the trans- 
fer and subsequent use of the elaborated food 
may take place more freely in darkness. So 
it comes that most of the growth of the plant 
is made at night. 
With this little knowledge of how plants 
feed it would seem that much depended upon 
the leaves of a plant, which, of course, is true; 
but just allow something to go wrong in the 
soil and see how quickly the leaf will show 
it. Or let some tiny underground insect nib- 
ble upon the roots, or let some sucking insect, 
so small that it could scarcely be seen with 
the naked ej'e, stick its beak here and there 
Digging Plants on the R. M. Kellogg Co. Farm 
THIS scene represents one of the important features of otir work of plant selection in the breeding bed. Only mother 
plants of highest (luality are used, and from these the choicest of young plants are transferred to the propagating 
field, from which are grown the famous Thoroughbreds that are shipped to our customers the continent over. 
Send U5 a full report of your strawberry experience and, if you can do so, send us a photograph of your patch or field, 
showing just how the Thoroughbreds appear. . 
