4 GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
VIEW OF OFFICE OF R. M. KELLOGG COMPANY 
The great packing house and implement building appear in the background. 
stored up in the body of the plant during the 
previous growing season is carried with it to 
its new home. This has much to do with its 
immediately starting into vigorous growth, 
while a plant that has been injured by sud- 
den freezing and thawing has been greatly 
weakened, and will start very slowly when re- 
set, many times failing to start growth at all. 
We deem it unnecessary to say more about 
the great value of using plants of high qual- 
ity, and pass to the preparation of the soil. 
Proper Fitting of the Soil 
NEXT in importance to the quality of the 
plants is the proper feeding of the soil in 
which the plants are to be set. In fact, 
it would not matter how good the plants might 
be if they were set in a poorly prepared soil 
and given half-hearted cultural methods — 
the crop of berries would not come up to 
your expectations; neither would the quality 
of the berries be what you would expect. 
Even Kellogg's Thoroughbred strain of plants 
will not thrive under neglect. We will not 
deceive anyone. If we win you as a cus- 
tomer it shall be done on fair-and-square 
grounds; and if we thought it was your in- 
tention to follow slip-shod methods we should 
prefer that you get your plants somewhere 
else, because we feel that it would injure our 
reputation to have some of our plants in the 
hands of a careless grower. It is the height 
of our ambition to make our cultural methods 
so plain that even the novice may succeed 
from the very beginning. Leading fruit 
growers and professors of horticulture of 
this country, as well as of Canada, have been 
kind enough to say that our methods were 
the most practical of any intensive cultural 
systems that ever have been put into print; 
and if you will adopt these methods and be 
faithful to them from the time you set the 
plants until you market the berries, there is 
no reason why you should not be just as suc- 
cessful as we have been, or as our many cus- 
tomers report they have been. 
IN giving you the instructions for feeding 
the soil we shall merely outline in concise 
form the plan used upon this farm. During 
the fall and winter months a good 
fhe^Son"* dressing of stable manure (about 
^ *" twelve to fifteen two-horse loads 
per acre) should be evenly applied over the 
entire surface of the ground which you in- 
tend to prepare for strawberry plants. We 
use manure spreaders — have four of them — 
