GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
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KELLOGG MOTHER PLANTS 
'J'HESE are the kind of mother plants which produce the runner plants that you get when you purchase plants from the Kellogg- 
Company. Note the large number of crowns developed by each one of these mother plants, also the immense root system. 
These are photographs of mother plants taken from our propagating field. You will note that the leaves of some are wilted a 
trifle, which was done while taking them from the farm to the photographer's gallery. This one illustration alone should con- 
vince the most skeptical that the Kellogg strain of plants must have great fruiting power. 
advance by being so filled with humus and 
plant-food that the plants do not suffer for a 
single moment for the want either of mois- 
ture or food. From the time the plants are 
set until they are dug and shipped to the cus- 
tomer they receive the very closest attention. 
During the growing season they are culti- 
vated from twenty-five to thirty times and 
hoed from twelve to fifteen times; they re- 
ceive from eight to ten thorough sprayings 
each season, using Bordeaux mixture and 
arsenates. The Bordeaux mixture is to pre- 
vent any fungous spores, and the arsenates 
are to keep away or destroy any leaf-eating 
or chewing insects. 
We mention this so that you may be as- 
sured when you purchase plants of the Kel- 
logg Company that you are receiving plants 
which are absolutely free from anything that 
would be detrimental to them. Each variety 
is grown in a bed to itself, and is handled 
in such a manner as to preclude any possible 
danger of a mix-up. Our plants are as pure 
as it is possible to have them. Therefore, 
when you order a certain variety of the Kel- 
logg plants you are sure to get that variety, 
true to name. There is nothing more disap- 
pointing to a fruit-grower than to order a 
certain variety and then, after it comes into 
hearing, to find that he has not received what 
he ordered and paid for; and although the 
nurseryman may be willing to return his 
money or replace the plants, this does not 
begin to reimburse him for the loss he has 
suffered. 
We might also state that our plants are 
thoroughly mulched to protect them from 
freezing during the winter. This mulch is 
applied at the first freeze in the fall, gener- 
ally about the last of November. The cov- 
ering consists of straw, and this material is 
applied over the entire 110 acres to a depth 
of about three inches, which shades the 
ground during the winter days when the sun 
shines brightly. This prevents the ground 
from thawing suddenly. Plants that are not 
cared for in this manner always are weak- 
ened by alternate freezing and thawing. 
The crowns of unprotected plants are often 
injured and the roots are weakened. Some- 
times the thawing will be so sudden that the 
plants which are not mulched will be raised 
out of the ground an inch or more, and in 
doing this the roots will be strained and some- 
times even broken from the crown. The 
mulch that we apply not only prevents this 
sudden freezing and thawing of the soil, but 
it also holds the plant dormant in the spring 
until we dig and ship them. A plant that 
has been protected in this manner will carry 
through the winter in ideal condition, and it 
will start off in the spring with great vigor 
and strength; the roots will be calloused and 
all of the vitality of the plant which has been 
