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GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co.. Three Rivers, Mich. 
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A BOX OF AUGUST LUTHER BERRIES FROM A REMARKABLE FIELD 
'PHIS is a box of August Luther berries grown from Kellogg's Tiioroughbred plants on Higiiland Fruit farm. Myrtle Point, 
Oregon, the photograph of which was sent us by the proprietor, H. B. Steward. There are thirteen berries in the bo.\, 
and in his letter Mr. Steward says; "I marketed my first berries on the 10th of May, my last on October 20th. The plants 
yielded crops to exceed $1500 per acre at 50 cents a gallon. This may sound big, but it is a fact that 1 picked two and one-half 
gallons from a single plant during the season, and one of my August Luther plants yielded 286 berries, ranging from five to 
seven inches in circumference." The most successful growers on the Pacific Coast use our plants, setting them in the spring. 
the grocer with choice berries and that you 
are to name the price and pay him from ten 
to fifteen per cent, commission for 
strawberries Selling them. The leading gro- 
cerymen in all towns are very glad 
to have the opportunity of handling fancy 
berries, more for the advertisement they get 
out of it than for the profit. SelKng from 
house to house is a very desirable way for 
the small grower. Where berries are sold in 
this manner they can be picked early in the 
morning, even if the vines are wet with dew, 
because the berries are sold and used before 
they would have time to spoil. 
Renewing the Fruiting Bed 
AFTER your berries are all picked, the 
vines are pretty well exhausted. They 
are just about as tired as you are after 
a hard season's work; and if you will mow 
off the foliage, loosen the mulching and, wher- 
ever it is too thick, scatter it out thinly, and 
Burnin Over ^hen dry Set fire to the patch 
,h"e Field ^"^^ ^^^^ entire field over, 
you will destroy any insects that 
might be prowling around, also any fungous 
spores. Mowing off and burning over also 
puts the plants in better condition for a second 
crop than any other thing we ever have tried. 
If the weather is exceedingly dry and has been 
dry for some time, we should mow off the 
vines, but would do no burning. We should 
rake off the mulching and old foliage and pile 
it up in some out-of-the-way place. If the 
burning was done during very dry weather, 
the heat from the fire might destroy the 
crowns of many plants. And do not burn over 
if it rains soon after you mow off the plants, 
as then they would burn slowly and the crowns 
would be seriously affected or destroyed. It 
