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GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
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KELLOGG'S STRAIN OF HAVERLANDS - REDUCED TO HALF-SIZE 
r\URING the twenty years the Kellogg Company have been breeding and selecting the Haverland it has continued to improve 
^ both in productiveness and quality of fruit. We do not hesitate to say that the Kellogg strain of this variety surpasses in 
the number of quarts per acre any other variety of its season. It requires more than a million plants to supply the demand for 
our Haverlands, and the demand comes from every part of the United States and the Dominion of Canada. 
Tools Used 
for Setting 
send ou<- a large number of feeding roots, 
which will soon take hold of the soil and 
start the plant to growing. 
IN setting plants we never have found any 
tool which equalled the dibble. We show 
a cut of this tool on Page 64, which will ex- 
plain it better than anything that 
we might say. Take the dibble in 
the right hand and thrust it into 
the soil about six inches deep, then press from 
you; this will make a wedge-shape opening 
about four inches wide at the top, tapering 
down to a point at the bottom. When plac- 
ing the plant into this opening give it a quick 
motion which will naturally spread the roots 
out fan-shaped. Then remove the dibble 
from the hole and place it into the soil about 
two inches from the opening, and then draw- 
ing the dibble toward you will bring the 
earth up against the roots of the plants. 
This closes the opening from bottom to top. 
A light pressure with the hands around the 
crown of the plant and— the plant is secure- 
ly set. Be sure and have the crown or body 
of the plant on a level with the surface of 
the ground, and also that the roots of every 
plant are spread out and that they extend 
straight down into the opening. Also be 
sure that the opening is filled back with soil 
and that it is pressed from bottom to top. 
As evidence that our method of setting 
plants is a good one, we will say that after 
METAL PLANT BASKET USED WHEN SETTING 
NOTE the covering over one end of the basket, which pro- 
tects the plants from hot sun and wind. The hood end 
always should be Itept towards the sun. 
setting one hundred and ten acres of plants 
last spring, we do not believe we lost one per 
