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GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
SEVEN SPECIMENS OF LONGFELLOW, THE WONDER OF THE STRAWBERRY WORLD 
I ONGFELLOW is the most wonderful early variety ever introduced. It is a great yielder of the most beautiful berries of the 
perfect strawberry type. In flavor and richness it surpasses all other early varieties. It .s a good shipper, and therefore 
.lestini to W^e g^eat early market variety. Its fruiting season is very long, and the last p.ckmK is as dehciously sweet and 
ardS.Vablea; the first We are the introducers of this variety, and plants may be obtained from no one else. Th.s variety bemK 
Tew our stock of plants naturally is not large. You should order early so that you may be sure of gettmg your share of them. 
not advise growers who aim for large size 
and highest prices to adopt this method of 
strawberry growing. 
Mulching the Plants 
WE would no more think of leaving our 
strawberry plants unprotected during 
the winter months than we would of 
leaving valuable horses out in the cold un- 
protected. You often have seen horses and 
cattle which have wintered out in the open 
all winter — roughed it, as we call it — and in 
the spring they were poor and weak; and it 
would require half the summer for them to 
recuperate and sometimes they would not 
recuperate at all. The same thing is true of 
a strawberry plant. If it is subjected to all 
the changes of winter— the freezing, thaw- 
ing, contracting and expanding of the soil — 
it undoubtedly will be just as much weakened 
and receive as great a shock as does neglected 
live-stock. On the other hand, take stock 
that has been stabled and well fed during the 
winter — they come out in the spring sleek 
and fat, strong of muscle and ready for a 
hard summer's work. Just so it is with straw- 
berry plants that have been mulched. In fact, 
such plants are stronger in the spring than 
they were in the fall because their roots are 
well established in the soil, and during periods 
when the ground was not frozen the roots 
have continued to grow; the crown is vigor- 
ous and full of vitality, and just as soon as 
the warm days of spring come the strong 
vitality of the plants force vigorous vegeta- 
tive growth and insure the production of 
heavy fruit stems, full of fruit buds. The 
mulch not only protects the plants and keeps 
them strong during the winter, but it also 
holds the moisture in the ground during the 
hot summer days when the plants so much 
need all the moisture they can get. It also 
furnishes a clean place for the berries to 
ripen upon, thus preventing the fruit from 
being covered with sand and grit. 
WHEAT straw, rye or oat straw, buck- 
wheat, marsh hay and coarse stable ma- 
nure all make splendid mulching. We prefer 
clean wheat straw if it can be 
Materials for gg^ured. Millet, if cut when in 
Mulching lyioom, makes a good mulching; 
so does corn fodder which has been grown 
thick enough to make it spindling and tough. 
If coarse stable manure is used, the finer 
