GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 33 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
James H. Arnold of Kenyon, R. I., Says Thoroughbreds are No. 1 
WRITING under date of July 7, 1908, James H. Arnold, of Kenyon, R. I., says: "The photograph I am sending 
was taken from plants that I purchased from you. I can say they are No. 1 plants and that we have had a very 
successful season. Could not grow enough berries to supply the demand." 
and arsenates, which insures perfect health 
and vigor of plants. 
All fruiting buds are removed as soon as 
they appear. 
Greatest possible care has been given all 
mother plants to increase their fruiting power. 
They have been properly pruned at set- 
ting time to prevent any unnecessary check 
in growth. 
Runner plants are layered, as soon as they 
start, by placing soil on the runner cord di- 
rectly hack of the young plant or node. This 
assists the young plant to take root quickly 
and encourages a full root system to start 
from the crown. 
The plants are well protected throughout 
the entire winter by a covering of straw, and 
in the following spring every Kellogg plant 
is in a strong and vigorous condition and 
ready to burst into immediate activity when 
set in its new home. 
In short, every detail known to scientific 
horticulture that will promote the develop- 
ment of the highest quality plant is faithfully 
carried out on the Kellogg farm. 
And these are the kind of plants that will 
insure victory. 
No other fertilizer wrill so quickly and so surely improve the mechanical condition of the soil as barnyard manure. It 
it nature a unfailiaff soil restorer. 
insures continuous growth from the time of 
setting to the close of the growing season. 
They are cultivated and hoed continuously 
throughout the growing season, keeping the 
soil free from weeds and crust formation. 
Spraying is continuous throughout the en- 
tire growing season, using Bordeaux mixture 
A Handful of Samples 
THE Kellogg strain of Sample plants produce berries of 
enormous size and in great quantities. Our stock of 
Sample plants is very large, but there is a great demand 
for them, and your order should reach us early, so that we 
may reserve you some plants of this splendid variety. 
