GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
WOMEN AND STRAWBERRIES 
TN this garden, everything in the way of berries and vegetables are grown to perfection, all kinds of bush fruits, and grapes. 
There is a row of strawberries in each row of grapes but the posts hide the view of the plants. You will note that Glen 
Mary is set in a row between Pride of Michigan and Wm. Belt. This is for the purpose of properly mating Glen Mary which 
is not sufficiently strong in pollen to give best results when set alone. You can have a garden just as nice as this one by usingr 
the Kellogg strain of plants and following their methods as these folks have done. 
the soil. In a small patch like this it is hardly 
necessary to roll it unless you have a small 
hand roller. 
■fATHERE the ground is limited the rows 
• may be made as close as two feet apart 
and the plants set one foot apart in the rows; 
or you may make the rows 
Systems of Cuiti- n/;, • i j. i j_ 
vating the Plants ^^teen mches apart and set 
the plants one foot apart in 
the rows and every fifth row leave a two-foot 
space. This leaves your plants in small beds 
of five rows each with a two-foot path be- 
tween the beds to walk in when picking the 
fruit. 
If you have your rows two feet apart and 
the plants set one foot apart in the row you 
may allow each plant to make sufficient run- 
ners to form either the single-hedge or dou- 
ble-hedge row. Either of these systems will 
give you a choice lot of berries, but if you 
make the rows fifteen inches apart and have 
five rows in each bed, it is then best to cut 
off all runners and grow the plants in the 
hill system. 
A small garden should be mulched the same 
as a large field and should be hoed and looked 
after in the best possible manner. A beauti- 
ful bed of strawberry plants in the home gar- 
den is a thing of beauty as well as a great 
help in providing the table with good things. 
The Use of Commercial Fertilizers 
PERHAPS you wall say that it is impossible 
for you to get enough stable manure of 
any kind to cover the ground you pur- 
pose setting to plants. In a case of this kind, 
we would suggest commercial fertilizer. In 
using commercial fertilizer, we would recom- 
mend a brand analyzing about as follows: 
Nitrogen, 
Potassium, 
Phosphorus, 
3 per cent. 
9 per cent. 
7 per cent. 
The amount you should apply per acre will be 
determined largely by the character of your 
soil. If it is rather thin, we should use about 
six hundred pounds per acre; if your soil will 
produce a fair crop of corn or potatoes, then 
about five hundred pounds per acre will be 
sufficient. 
The commercial fertilizer should be drilled 
over the ground after the latter has been 
plowed and harrowed once. Then it should 
