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The Seat 
of 
Authority 
upon the management of this farm was shown 
in the fall of 1905 when the important straw- 
berry center, Durant, IVIississippi, was overrun 
with a pest that was ravaging and destroying en- 
tire fields, and no one 
could discover the nature 
of the enemy or what must 
be done to remedy matters. 
President Frank E. Beatty of the Kellogg 
Company was asked to come down and investi- 
gate, and the railway company added its request 
to the invitation. An hour after his arrival he 
had discovered the pest, described its nature to 
the people and pointed out the remedy. The 
calls for addresses before horticultural societies 
and in agricultural colleges are too numerous to 
be filled. Our catalogue is used as a text book 
in many agricultural colleges, and The Straw- 
berry magazine, edited upon this farm, is the 
recognized periodical authority on everything 
pertaining to strawberry production. 
•yHE genesis of this farm, as we have said, 
was in the idea that the strawberry plant is 
amenable to the laws of breeding that apply to 
animal life and to other forms of plant life. 
That being true, the first thought of its man- 
agement concerns the building up of the most 
„ .. powerful and productive 
Breeding i . »i > . , , 
Thoroughbred 1','*"' ^^"^ "''^'"^ 
Plants °' man, working in 
partnership, may produce. 
It will be of interest, then, to follow briefly the 
methods employed upon these farms in develop- 
ing the Kellogg Thoroughbred Pedigree Plants. 
Take, for instance, two varieties which radically 
differ one from the other in their physical struc- 
ture and in their tendencies to produce fruit and 
foliage, and it is an interesting study to see how 
Lture 
of Plants 
the objectionable in each has been restrained 
and the desirable points of each cultivated, 
strengthened and made more and more a part of 
their very nature. 
^^NE of these varieties at the outset was de- 
ficient in foliage, while the other grew an 
abundant, not to say luxuriant, foliage, but 
was weak in its fruit-producing organism. Both 
possessed too many strong characteristics to be 
discarded, and it became the task of the experts 
to even things up and make 
of both splendid producers. Changing the 
A careful selection of plants 
of the variety deficient in 
foliage was made, only those being chosen out 
of breeding bed No. 1 for mother plants that 
mdicated a disposition to employ a fair share of 
their energies in the production of foliage. 
Those selected were staked and numbered and 
a close watch kept upon their performance 
througliout the entire growing season. The 
following spring twelve choice plants were taken 
from each of the staked hills and set in breeding 
bed No. 2, giving to each the same number as 
that borne by its mother plant, leaving the 
latter and three of her progeny in bed No. 1 
from which to make the fruiting tests. 
PI ERE, then, are tested both elements in this 
particular variety, and the plants showing 
the greatest gain in foliage-production are the 
ones selected for future propagation. In the 
case of the variety in which foliage was super- 
abundant the same course is pursued, the object 
being, not increased foliage, but increased yield 
in berries. Thus is carried forward, with in- 
finite patience and care, experiments and tests 
looking to the breeding up of varieties into 
