SEVERAL BUNCHES OF KELLOGG S THOROUGHBREDS 
'lAT'E show this photo-enffravine: to represent the difference in the size of bunches of the several varieties. Glen Mary makes 
a large plant; therefore, a bunch of twenty-five plants is much larprer than that of Senator Dunlap. Warfield is a trifle 
smaller than Senator Dunlap and not quite so lonft-. Sample is almost as large as Glen Mary but somewhat shorter. However, 
the size of the plants denotes no great difference in their value or fruiting power: plants, regardless of size, which come from 
a line of mother plants that have a known fruiting record and have been properly propagated are the kind which are capable 
of producing large quantities of choice berries. Note engraving above and on Pages 2 and 3 and see the character of the Kel- 
logg mother plants which produced this Kellogg strain of thoroughbred plants. 
and we find it one of the best investments 
we ever made, but we i-ealize that all grow- 
ers have not sufficient land to justify the 
purchase of one of these machines. How- 
ever, if you can rent one it will pay you to 
do it. If you cannot, then scatter the ma- 
nure from the wagon as you haul it just as 
evenly as you possibly can. It will even pay 
you to have someone follow after the wagon 
and rescatter the bunches. It pays to have 
the manure so evenly distributed that every 
inch of the ground has its portion. This 
manure should lie on the ground throughout 
the winter, and the rains and melting snow 
will leach the juices from the manure, which 
will be taken up by the soil. The manure 
will also act as a mulch, preventing sudden 
thawing during the warm days in the winter 
and preventing also a waste of plant food 
during windy weather; and in the spring, 
when the general thaw comes, instead of the 
ground starting to thaw from the top, it will 
dissolve from the heat brought up from un- 
der the surface. This will prevent the soil 
from settling and running together, and in 
the spring the soil will be as mellow as an 
ash heap. 
TN the spring, just as soon as the soil will 
crumble, the manure should be plowed 
under. After the plowing, a disc or Acme 
pi^^.^ harrow should be used thor- 
Ma^ure Under oughly to incorporate the ma- 
nure with the soil. The vege- 
table matter of the manure should be thor- 
oughly distributed through the soil so that 
little particles of it may come in contact with 
a large portion of the soil grains. This will 
make the soil spongy and light, capable of 
holding large quantities of water and giving 
off the moisture as the plants need it. It 
also makes it possible to hold the soil at a 
more even temperature, which is absolutely 
necessary to keep the bacterial germs work- 
ing as they should in order to prepare plant 
food into digestible form for the plants. 
Humus also increases the number and activ- 
ity of bacterial germs. 
We have experimented with manures of 
different kinds; that from the sheep pen, 
