30 GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
THOROUGHBREDS 'WAY OUT IN IDAHO 
THIS photograph illustrates the one-fifth-acre strawberry patch of Kello^B- plants on the farm of W. H. Garner of Preston, 
Idaho, from which he sold $125.00 worth of strawberries in 1909. He writes August 21, 1909: "It's no trouble to sell 'Thor- 
oughbreds' ! Everybody says my berries were the best they ever saw. I picked ten of them which weighed one pound. The plants 
I got of you this spring are doing fine." Mr. Garner is only one of many Idaho patrons who find our plants always win success. 
■with this by-product of the poultry yards. 
The man who grows strawberries, using this 
by-product, and who stores up the fertilizer 
which he has sprinkled with land plaster or 
dust and stored away in barrels or boxes until 
the time for its use, will be assured of the 
very largest possible returns from his straw- 
berries and consequently from his fertilizer. 
Every man who has raised chickens and 
any kinds of fruit, whether orchard fruit or 
small fruit, knows the high value of chickens 
as destroyers of injurious insects and worms, 
and for the greater part of the season the 
chickens may be trusted to feed among the 
plants, with positive assurance that very few 
insect pests or worms will be left alive in the 
field. After the new plants get to growing 
nicely turn in some old hens with their little 
chicks and let them follow the cultivator. It 
is wonderful what devastation they will make 
among the worms and bugs. However, be 
careful to keep the chickens out of the straw- 
berry bed after the plants are mulched and 
while the runners are taking root. 
The large poultry-house shown herewith, 
with its fine shade trees and beautiful row of 
strawberry plants stretching away to its front 
in full blossom, is the ideal of what this com- 
bination may mean to the man who enters 
with spirit and intelligence into this dual work. 
Already many of our patrons have worked 
out this combination to splendid success. 
Heeling-in the Plants 
FOR several years we have advocated the 
importance of having plants shipped early 
in the season while they are dormant, the 
customer heeling them in to hold until ready 
to set them. During the spring 
Ex°pelnce 19^9, we had plants shipped to 
us for testing from California. 
They arrived in the early days of March. 
Our ground was frozen, but we cut through 
the frozen earth and heeled the plants in as 
we illustrate on Page 17. After heeling them 
in we covered them lightly with straw. The 
same day the plants were heeled in came a 
snowfall, and at several difi'erent times the 
ground froze quite hard. The plants re- 
mained heeled in until the latter part of 
April, leaving them in the heeled-in trench 
for nearly two months. When our soil was 
in condition to set the plants they were taken 
up and set out, and we do not believe we lost 
three per cent, of them. We are thoroughly 
convinced that the proper plan for all cus- 
tomers to follow is to have plants shipped 
