DELIVERING KELLOGG PLANTS TO U. S. EXPRESS CO. CARS 
drawn all around the plants and the crowns cov- 
ered lightly with the soil, which may best be done 
with a hoe. This will aid the plants to form 
. their new root system, 
rrowing which is made just above 
Uown , , 1 , , , , 
The Rows ' ^ below the 
crown. Cultivation and 
hoeing should proceed as in the case of the 
new-set bed. These plants should be permitted 
to make runners until all the vacant places in 
the rows are filled. For the second crop we 
recommend double-hedge rows for all varieties. 
VK'^E would repeat here what we have before 
said, that one-half the business is in know- 
ing how to grow big crops of fancy berries; the 
other half is in knowing how to put them on 
the market at a profit. It is not easy to give 
definite plans in a general way, because local 
conditions have so much to 
do with it all. However, Marketing 
there are only three ways 
in which berries may be 
sold. One is through commission merchants in 
a large market, another is through retail stores, 
and still another is from house to house. Which 
is the best method for each individual he must 
determine for himself. But whatever your de- 
cision it should be reached long before the 
marketing season is at hand. And however 
you sell, it will pay you big to select your fruit 
with care and pack it in the most attractive 
the 
Crop 
manner possible. It doesn't make any differ- 
ence how many berries are in market, if your 
berries thus are selected and are known to be 
first-class clear to the bottotn of the box, they 
will be sold, and at the price you fix for them, 
even though it be several cents above the 
"going" figure. There never yet has been a 
time when beautiful, sweet, well-ripened berries, 
put up in this way, were a drug on the market. 
Make it a point to see that your berries are the 
best to be had — and success is yours. 
/^UR book would not be complete if we failed 
to urge the importance and value of the 
family strawberry bed. None may observe the 
illustrations in this book and note the interest 
that all the members of the family take in this 
delightful occupation of strawberry culture 
without realizing something of the joy and profit 
it gives, and if our friends could read the thou- 
sands of letters we annually receive from men 
and women and young folk who could not en- 
joy the sweet and delicious fruit at all were it 
not that they themselves 
grew it— if these letters The Family 
could be read as it is our Slrawberry 
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privilege to do, intelligent 
comprehension of the important place occupied 
by the strawberry in our domestic economy and 
the life of our people would be more general. 
The cost of a family garden is too small to be 
considered; the labor is trivial, and it is in very 
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