R. M. KELLOGG'S GREAT CROPS OF 
OUR HOME— Tie Prodnct of a Strawberry Patcli 
the foundation of fruit flesh is much more rapid 
where the life germ in the seed is in full vitality. 
The seeds in a large strawberry are no larger 
than in a small berry and no greater in number, 
but when planted quickly germinate and make a 
rapid growth while the seeds from a small berry, 
are slow to start and make a feeble growth, and 
many fail to grow because the life germ is weak. 
An Objecflon is sometimes made to this theory 
on the ground that some fruits have no seed, such 
as bananas, navel oranges, etc., but these are only 
A small crop of small berries, lacking in flavor, 
color and texture, which must be sold at the 
buyer's price, is neither profitable nor pleasant. 
A bigf crop of big berries that sell at sight at a 
big price to regular customers is always both 
profitable and pleasant ; which of these you will 
have depends largely on your knowledge of plant 
life and the laws which govern the development of 
fruit. 
THE PEDIGREE. 
Undeveloped StrawSerrles, Showing Lack of 
Potency In Pollen 
freaks of nature. No one ever saw a large, luscious 
strawberry without seeds ; the same is true of 
apples, plums, and peaches. 
The best variety of any kind of fruit is the one 
which, in producing its seeds, develops the most 
fruit flesh and imparts to it the desired flavor, color 
and texture. This is the reason so many seedlings 
are discarded as worthless and why promising 
sorts disappear. They lose their tendency to form 
fruit by bad propagation. 
The pedigree of nn animal or plant is the 
history cf its breeding or propagation. If the 
history shows the line of ancestors to have been 
.scrubs, they are clas.sed as mongrels. Among 
stock breeders, " Pedigree " is a term used to 
denote systematic breeding for a definite purpose, 
not only in keeping the breed pure in blood, but 
making them to produce in the offspring certain 
desired charact> ristics so they will be an improv- 
ment on the parents. 
A few years ago stock breeding became unprof- 
itable, and breeders being generally in debt they 
sold their thoroughbredanimalsfor what they would 
bring. AH at once there was a great shortage in 
beef and the demand being great the western 
feeders rushed for the rough, native cattle of the 
plains. They soon found that it took double the 
feed to fatten these mongrels that it did their 
thoroughbred animals ; they would make bone but 
not flesh, and the miserable, tough rr ' thrr,- 
on the market greatly diminished the 
of beef. People could not eat it. '-i''' 
The large profits in small fri 
people without practical knowled t" 
secure mongrel plants which ha 
produce fruit of high quality 
indifferent cultivation and th 
great cities and the larger tow 
with fruit so poor, people wou 
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