GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
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as soon 
as the 
young 
plant 
gets its 
roots 
well es- 
tablished 
in the soil 
and starts 
feeding 
from the 
soil, it 
ceases to 
draw upon 
the mother 
plant and, 
therefore, it 
would be of 
no value to dis- 
connect it from 
the mother plant, 
PVERY grower, 
whether pro- 
ducing strawberries 
on a large or small 
scale, should have a 
small plot 
The Experi- r „ j 
mental Bed of ground 
for experi- 
mental purposes. Here 
he should test a few 
plants of all the leading 
varieties, also plants of any 
of the old varieties which he 
never has tested. Twenty- 
five plants of each variety 
would be sufficient to make a 
thorough test, and this is really 
the only way to determine which 
varieties do the best in your particu- 
lar soil and locality. The berries pro- 
duced by these plants in the experimental 
plot will more than pay the cost of the plants 
and all of the work put on them, and you will 
thus learn the merits of tne different varieties. 
You also will find the testing bed the most inter- 
esting spot on your farm, and you will look for- 
ward with pleasurable anxiety to the fruiting of 
the many different varieties you are testing. 
Chickens and Strawberries 
THIS illustration is suggestive of the 
advantage of combining chickens and 
strawberries as a joint commercial 
enterprise. It will be difficult to con- 
ceive of a more perfect combina- 
tion, as the poultryman's leisure 
hours come at the strawberry 
season and at a time when his 
revenues from the poultry 
yard are at their low- 
est. Another feature 
of this combination, 
and a very impor- 
tant one, is the 
high price the 
poultryman 
receives 
for his 
chick- 
drop- 
pings 
through 
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keting of his strawberries that are fertilized 
