GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
OUR SPRAYING MACHINES AT WORK 
'pHE KellosK Thoroughbred plants are kept continually coated with Bordeaux mixture and arsenates during the entire erow- 
ing season, which guarantees the plants to be perfectly free from insects and fungous diseases. The importance of this to 
our customers may be the more readily understood by reference to a typical incident. The Idaho state inspector recently or- 
dered a fruit farmer to destroy all the nursery stock which he had just set out on a twenty-acre tract because everything he 
had set was diseased. Can you afford to take chances of carrying insects and fruit diseases to your farm by buying cheap 
plants which are not sprayed in the propagating bed? The insurance you have against such a disaster when you purchase Kel- 
logg pure-bred plants is worth many times what you pay for the plants, and you cannot afford to take the risk of possible loss 
Then there is danger that the unpruned roots 
will double up, which may delay the develop- 
ment of the plant. 
Setting Out the Plants 
WITH the ground thoroughly fitted cul- 
turally, rolled as smooth as a floor and 
properly marked, and with the pruned 
plants in hand, we may proceed with their 
setting in the ground in which they are to 
fruit. It is not a job to be done in kid gloves 
and your Sunday-go-to-meetin' clothes. Our 
folks pad their knees with an old piece of 
gunnysack or similar material and get right 
down to Mother Earth when performing this 
task. They use a dibble, and after one has 
used this implement it is not an easy matter 
to get along without it. We have men on 
our farm who set as many as 2,000 plants a 
day each, and do not find it hard work either. 
Let us observe one of them to discover just 
how he does it. Holding the dibble in his 
right hand he thrusts it into the soil to a 
depth of about six inches, pressing it outward 
to make an opening and keeping it in that 
position so that the soil may not fall back in- 
to the opening. As this is done he quickly 
seizes a plant, gives it a quick and vigorous 
shake to spread out the roots, then sets it 
down into the soft and crumbly soil, so hold- 
ing the crown that it will be on the level with 
the surface of the ground when setting is 
complete. Then the dibble is withdrawn and 
plunged into the soil about two inches from 
the opening to force the soil against the 
plants, pressing the soil at the same time 
against the other side with the left hand. 
Cultivating the Plants 
IT is the rule of the most successful stock- 
men that best results are invariably se- 
cured by supplying the young animal with 
an abundance of good feed from the time of 
its birth and without interruption until the 
finished product goes on the market. The 
same thing is just as true of plant life, and 
on the Kellogg farms it is the rule that just 
as soon as the setting gang gets to work they 
are followed to the field with Planet Jr. 
twelve-tooth cultivators, and the work of cul- 
tivation begins then and there and never 
ceases until the plants go under the mulch 
in the fall. 
When the plants begin to spread and the 
roots to extend, care should be taken that 
the roots be not injured by the cultivator, 
