GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 55 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
Beidler, P. (Female) 
MEDIUM EARLY. Pistillate. Beidler is one of the 
varieties that sell instantly on sight. When properly 
packed in the box there are few strawberries that 
excel it in beauty. Very large as to size of fruit and 
yield, it is bright red in color, and in flavor is exceed- 
ingly rich, while the fruit is solid in texture, and of 
just the character that makes it an ideal shipper. 
Such a combination of excellencies has won for this 
variety great popularity among commercial straw- 
berry growers, and we enter upon the fourth year of 
propagating Beidler with renewed confidence in its 
value. The foliage is large, tall and healthy. The 
fruit stems are unusually powerful and keep the fruit 
well off the ground, — no light burden where such 
enormous yields of berries are the rule. We have 
found that Beidler and Thompson's No. 2 make an 
ideal combination, and we do not hesitate to urge our 
customers to give Beidler and its mate an extensive 
trial in their grounds, confident of their complete 
satisfaction with results. 
gen and transmute it into available plant 
food. So far as is known there is no other 
family of plants save the legumes that en- 
courages these bacteria. 
Therefore, the way to get nitrogen into 
your soil at the lowest possible price — a free 
gift, as it were, from bountiful and gener- 
ous nature — is to alternate your fields with 
legumes of some sort — cowpeas or field peas 
we recommend — and plow it all under in the 
fall after the whole mass of vines have be- 
come fibrous and the peas are ripe. This will 
fill your soil with two prime requisites — the 
element nitrogen and great quantities of vege- 
table matter; and decaying vegetable matter, 
as we have pointed out in the article on 
"Barnyard Manure for Strawberries," is one 
of the very first steps to success in crop pro- 
duction. Don't rush off and invest a lot of 
money in commercial fertilizers while re- 
Never set a plant that comes from a bed that has fruited. 
powers already h: 
Midnight, B. (Male) 
LATE. Bisexual. This variety is of distinct and 
striking individuality. The berry is broad and thick 
at the stem, tapering down to a fine wedge-shaped 
point. In color the fruit is pink, and the flesh always 
is white, having a texture similar in character to 
that of the white-meated peach. No richer or sweeter 
berry ever has been grown, and we recommend it 
especially for the family garden. We have named it 
Midnight because it is one of the very latest and pro- 
longs the fruiting season beyond any other variety we 
know. The quality of its fruit is quite equaled by the 
quantity of its yield, and it is an excellent shipper. 
The foliage is a handsome glossy dark green, of 
spreading nature; its crowns usually are large and 
numerous; so late is its bloom as to make it almost 
perfectly immune from frost. This is the seventh year 
we have grown Midnight in our breeding beds. 
suits may be achieved by the employment of 
a little gumption and the resources right at 
one's own hand. 
Reason and Common Sense 
TN ORDER that a machine of any kind 
may do perfect work every part of it 
must be in working order. A small defect 
in a machine will cause a defect in the article 
the machine turns out. If a horse is to do 
his best, whether on the track or in the field, 
he must be in perfect condition ; must be 
properly fed, groomed, properly harnessed, 
hitched and driven. 
The same is true in the case of straw- 
berry plants. They must be perfectly devel- 
oped and strong in all their parts before they 
can produce big crops of big red berries, and 
it is because the Kellogg strain of Thorough- 
breds are thus perfectly developed that they 
have beaten the world's fruiting records. 
Such a plant will not give you desired results. Its fruiting 
ve been discounted. 
