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GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
GROW THEM 
Challenge, B. (Male) 
MEDIUM. Bisexual. This variety is very popular 
for those who grow strawberries for the family trade. 
The berry is extra large, but not so uniform and 
smooth as many other varieties. However, its great 
size, fine color and delicious flavor have won for it 
the admiration of growers everywhere Challenge has 
been grown and sold. Round in shape and cor- 
rugated, it has a rich dark-red color, the efl^ect of 
which is heightened by bronze-colored seeds that look 
as if they had been polished, and when packed neatly 
in the box the Challenge is one of the most tempting 
strawberries grown. The flesh is deep crimson, very 
solid and rich. It is a strong shipper. Foliage is 
large, dark green, and spreads out well, giving every 
berry a chance to develop to full size. It is univer- 
sally successful, thriving in all soils and under all 
conditions of climate. To its other strong points it 
adds the invaluable quality of great productiveness. 
This is the seventh year of selection and restriction of 
the Challenge in our breeding beds. 
Klondike, B. (Male) 
MEDIUM. Bisexual. The Klondike deserves its 
name, for it has proved itself to be a veritable gold 
mine for those who grow this variety for market. Of 
beautiful and uniform shape, rich blood red as to color, 
which extends throughout the entire berry, its fine 
appearance instantly wins for it an assured popularity 
in every market where it is exposed. As to flavor it 
cannot be said to be either sweet or sour; it has a 
mild, delicious flavor unlike any other variety; and it 
is juicy withal. The calyx is small, curling back 
toward the stem. The foliage is light green, tall and 
compact, with medium sized leaves. Runners form 
abundantly, and plants grow large and develop as 
many crowns as any variety on our list. And as a 
heavy yielder it is certainly a wonder. This is the 
seventh year we have had the Klondike variety in our 
breeding beds, and we can advise our customers with 
even greater confidence than ever before to secure a 
generous number of them. 
Found a Weedless Farm 
VTRS. EMMA HEY, of Dixon, 111., who visited the 
Kellogg farm, wrote after her return home: "For 
many years I have dreamed of a weedless farm, but 
never expected to see one. TheKelloggstrawberryfarm 
comes very near being just that. I was also very much 
pleased with the evidence I saw on every hand of the 
painstaking care with which the smallest details were 
looked after, which would make the Kellogg plants 
the best, the purest and the most carefully packed and 
shipped in the world." 
Thoroughbreds Insure Fine Crop 
pRED BEINDORF, of Litchfield, 111., says: "The 
5,000 plants I got of you look fine as silk. I am 
very well pleased with their appearance and I feel 
sure of a fine crop next year." 
The Kellogg Way Insures Success 
Q H. ASHWORTH of Humboldt, Ills., writing 
^* under date of January 15, 1908, says: "I have 
about 4,000 of the finest strawberry plants I ever saw. 
and I think the main reason is that they are Kellogg's 
Thoroughbreds, and that they have been handled in 
the Kellogg way. I want to tell you about an experi- 
ence of mine last year in which I think I rather got a 
joke on two of my brothers. I worked right along 
after fruiting in 1907 and kept my patch clean and 
covered with a dust-mulch. My brothers said that I 
was ruining my strawberries; that they would all die 
in August if I kept the weeds cleaned out. I saw their 
plants in October. The patch was full of weeds waist 
high and the strawberries were nothing but a solid 
mat of little weakly plants, while my plants were 
great big fellows of the healthiest kind, and they 
appeared to be looking at me as though they would 
say, 'You have been good to me, and I will pay you 
for it next July.' " 
Thoroughbreds the Wonder of Washington 
■pj G. FULTON, of Charleston, Washington, writ- 
ing under date of May 21, 1908, says: "The 
berries I purchased of you last spring are a wonder 
to my neighbors here, and I hope to be able to start a 
berry ranch soon." 
Don't let a bed of strawberry plants run wild after you have fruited it for several years. Burn it off clean, which will 
destroy insects. 
