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GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
KELLOGG'S THOROUGHBREDS IN THE GREEN MOUNTAIN STATE 
■\)17'RITING under date of June 19, 1909, and enclosing the photograph which wc have made into the half-tone above, G. M. 
Farnsvvorth of North Bennington, Vt. writes as follows: "I am very much pleased with the Pride of Michigan and Bubach 
which 1 am growing with Michel's Early. Bubach has been thoroughly pollenizcd by this combination and all the plants are 
loaded w ith nice big fruit; never saw late varieties so full of fruit as Pride of Michigan. Bubach is living up to its old reputa- 
tion. Have set out five acres of plants propagated from those which I got of you in 1908. Let me say for the Pride of Michigan 
that I never saw such beautiful plants in my life for vigor. It makes just runners enough and 1 now have some young plants 
with crowns in four parts." Mr. Farnsworth's straw hat indicates the height of his plants. 
this respect, as well as in their fruit-produc- 
ing power, and customers who have tested 
them beside other plants verify our claims. 
YEARS of experience has convinced us 
that even bisexuals will do better when 
set with other bisexuals than they will when 
set alone. We discovered this sev- 
msexuais ^^^^ ^^^^^ experimenting 
with a large number of different bi- 
sexuals set in rows side by side. Twenty-five 
plants cf each variety were used. We took 
some of the same bisexual varieties and set 
them in large blocks by themselves. At fruit- 
ing time, the different bisexuals which were 
mated with other bisexuals showed a large 
gain over the same varieties which were set 
alone and which had to depend upon pollen 
from their own flowers. While this is one of 
our discoveries, it since has been tested 
by experiment stations and professors of 
horticulture have found our claims to be cor- 
rect; and inasmuch as this is now a settled 
fact we suggest that all our customers adopt 
this plan of mating; that is, to grow the pis- 
tillates in rows between two bisexuals of dif- 
ferent seasons, and, if it is your purpose to 
grow all bisexuals, to set them in rows so 
that you will have about three rows of each 
variety alternately. 
Cultivating Strawberry Plants 
THERE is no department of the work 
requiring more careful attention and 
thought than cultivation. Often grow- 
ers will fail at this point. We shall describe 
the methods of cultivation employed on our 
farms and if you could see our one hundred 
and ten acres of plants during the growing 
season, we are sure that you would require 
no further proof of the necessity and value 
of thoroughness in this department. 
Just as soon as the men start setting the 
plants we have one or two men follow them 
with twelve-tooth Planet Jr. cultivators, go- 
