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GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
Couldn't Supply the Demand for Kellogg's Thoroughbred Berries 
JOSEPH D. MYER, of Kingman, Ind., writes us: "Am sending you photograph of the plants I bought of you. 
Ninety-eight out of every hundred plants grew and did well; they were the admiration of all who saw them. I raised 
the finest berries I ever saw, and couldn't supply the demand for them at the patch. We had a 'full dinner pail' while 
they lasted." 
into the rootlets and extract some of the 
juices and see how quickly the leaf will show 
that something has gone wrong. Neglect cul- 
tivation and allow the moisture to escape 
through the packed, crusted surface and the 
leaf will show the results more quickly than 
the roots. Or just allow fungous spores or in- 
sects to destroy the leaf tissues and the roots 
will immediately make inquiry as to what 
has gone wrong with the leaf department. 
Just as soon as something goes wrong with 
the leaf the distribution of elaborated food 
ceases to be normal. Then the root must 
starve, even though it collects food. It does 
not matter how abundant the soluble plant 
food may be, the leaves must be in perfect, 
healthy condition to take care of the crude 
material as the roots send it up. Thus it 
will be seen that there must be perfect har- 
mony between the soil and the roots and fo- 
liage of the plant so that the plant may use 
the elements of the atmosphere and soil to 
get just the right percentage of each at the 
proper time in order to build up a perfectly 
balanced plant, uniform in all its parts. 
Strawberries and Chickens 
' I ''HE man who is making a specialty of 
poultry or egg production is in a particu- 
larly advantageous situation to engage in 
strawberry production. The fertility supplied 
by his fowls can in no other way be turned 
to so profitable account as when used to fer- 
tilize the strawberry field. It is a matter of 
statistical record that strawberries yield the 
largest revenue to a given area of any crop, 
and when the soil is prepared for the plants 
Thoroughbreds in the Fields of S. H. Snyder, 
Waterloo, N. Y. 
'Cj'ROM Mr. Snyder comes the following: "l send you herewith ■ 
photograph of my ihrec-quarter-acrc strawberry patch, from 
which we have just finished picking 3,600 quarts of fine fruit. These 
plants are Kclloge Thoroughbreds, and because I have grown from 
them the finest fruit, I am called the Strawberry King of Seneca 
County. The plants I purchased from you (his spring (1908) are do- 
ing 5nely, and I shall want a still larger order in the spring of 1909.** 
Fall setting of strawberry plants in northerly latitudes is always unwise aMd is bad horticultural practice. Don't do itt 
