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GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
S. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
Glen Mary and Warfield 
HERE are two of our old favorites, popular in every state of the Union and all over Canada. Warfield is shown in 
the cup, and indicates the type and size of berry produced by the Kellogg strain of Warfield plants. Our plants of 
this variety have made a fruiting record that we are proud of; and the plants for 1909 are the finest ever grown on the 
Kellogg farms. Glen Mary, at edge of cup, says more than we could do in many words. Our strain of Glen Marys 
grows in favor so rapidly that in the past it has been impossible for us to supply the demand. We have a large stock 
for 1909 and we hope to be able to fill all orders that come to us. 
Some Suggestive Figures 
T^HE Kellogg farm consists of 220 acres of as fertile 
land as may be found anywhere. Each year we 
grow approximately 100 acres of strawberry plants. 
Placed in one continuous row they would extend from 
Chicago to Detroit, with 28 miles to spare; we have, 
in other words, 292 miles of plants. 
Our cultivating brigade, with Planet Jr. culti- 
vators, went over the rows thirty times each way in 
the season of 1908, making the total distance traveled 
by men and teams 17,520 miles. This equals five 
trips from New York to San Francisco, with 1,165 
miles to credit on the sixth trip. 
We grow between 20,000,000 and 25,000,000 
plants, and 20,000,000 plants, placed two feet apart, 
will set 8,000 miles of plants. 
It requires 450 barrels of spraying materials, or 
22,500 gallons, to spray our plants each vear, and we 
use in excess of 2,000 tons of manure annually to 
fertilize the farms. In 1908 we paid $1,700.00 in 
freight bills on manure alone. 
To mulch our plants requires about 350 tons of 
straw each season, and it requires from thirty to forty 
tons of spaghnum moss to pack the plants we ship 
each year. 
To make our shipping crates we use more than 
one ton of 3-penny nails each season. 
Our postage bill reaches from $7,500 to $8,000 per 
annum. 
There are 1 51,363 acres of land in the United 
States devoted to strawberry production, on which 
257,427,103 quarts of strawberries are grown, or an 
average of about 1,700 quarts to the acre. Kellogg 
Thoroughbreds have produced in the states east of 
the Rocky Mountains 10,000 quarts to the acre, and 
on the Pacific Coast more than 15,000 quarts to the 
acre, or nearly nine times as many as the "average" 
plants have done. 
Pleaae note that we never emplojr agents, nor do we allow commissiong on plant! sold. 
