GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
57 
Sample, P. (Female) 
LATE. Pistillate. One of the most attractive of all 
the late varieties, producing not only very late berries, 
but immense quantities of them as well. This extremely 
large berry is bright red, the inner part being a deep 
scarlet. The Sample is top-shaped. Its flavor is 
delicious, and the fruit very rich and juicy. The seeds 
turn red as the berries ripen, and so closely do they 
resemble the color of the berry as to be almost invis- 
ible. The stem and caly.x are small and remain a 
bright green days after the fruit has been picked. As 
a shipper few varieties excel the Sample. It is a gen- 
eral favorite for canning purposes, while as a table 
berry it has few superiors. One important character- 
istic of the Sample is its perfect system of coloring a 
certain percentage of its fruit each day, until the 
season is over. Such excellencies as we have named 
have made the Sample a universal favorite. This is 
the thirteenth year of this variety in our breeding 
beds. See pages 22 and 33. 
rainfall to insure good crops, the greatest 
value of the barnyard manure is in the plant 
food it contains, although even here we must 
not fail to recognize its great physical value. 
But in the more or less arid regions, or where 
there are periods of drought at critical times 
for the crops, the phj'sical conditions cre- 
ated by the decaying vegetable inatter con- 
tained in barnyard manure are of the utmost 
importance. 
Organic matter in the soil does another 
thing of prime importance — it sets free some 
of the locked-up plant food that resides in 
the soils. AH our soils contain vast quanti- 
ties of fertility, but these rich stores are 
mostly in forms which arc useless to plants. 
To make them available as plant food is one 
This book is copyrighted and all illustrations and letter-prej 
take notice and will avoid trouble by se 
use of its pictorial 
New Home, B. (Male) 
VERY LATE. Bisexual. Grows extra large bright- 
red berries, which retain their color for several days 
after being picked. The firmness and keeping qualities 
of New Home make it one of the most profitable on 
the list. The flesh is a deep pink and the flavor of 
the fruit very rich. The seeds are brown and yellovf 
and glossy, giving to the fruit a polished appearance. 
This is the fourth year in which we have bred this 
variety, and its performance on our farms fully con- 
firms the excellent reports which have come to us from 
innumerable sources. The foliage is light-green, and 
the plants are beautiful and thrifty. We get very fine 
reports as to yields of tills variety, and are not sur- 
prised, for it fully bears out these reports. 
of the most important fiuictions of the de- 
caying vegetable matter found in barnyard 
manure. 
And to these advantages are to be added 
the fact that the decay of vegetable matter 
generates materials which decompose the soil 
particles, and also promotes various soil ac- 
tivities. All these working together are con- 
tinually making food elements available. And 
the family of plants which includes the clo- 
vers, beans, peas and alfalfa actually add fer- 
tility to the soil. So we say, use barnyard 
manure; use it intelligently. It will bring 
large returns and render successful many an 
enterprise tiiat without its use might prove 
a failure. 
Just the Thing for Strawberry Growers 
CTEPHEN T. CRUM, writing from Anoka, Neb., 
^ says: "I. am in receipt of your book for 1908, and 
I am very much pleased with it. I would not take a 
good sum for it and do without it. It is just the thing 
for the strawberry grower." 
rtatter are protected fully under the law. All persons wrill 
ring our permission before making any 
or literary features. 
