GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
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A GLEN IVIARY AND WM. BELT BERRY 
JUST to give you some idea of the size of berries produced by the Kellogg- strain of Win. Belt and Glen Mary, we show as back- 
ground a teaspoon si.-c inches long. With a strain of plants that produce such berries as these, is it any wonder that we 
never have grown a suificient number of plants of these two varieties to supply the demand? This year we have set a larger 
acreage than ever to Glen Mary and Wm. Belt and hope to be able to fill all orders which come to us for them. However, we 
urge you to get in your order as early as possible so that we may reserve for you as many of these plants as you wish. 
a big crop of fruit. Every hour spent with 
his strawberries will yield golden returns. 
Removing Buds the First Season 
ONE prinme essential to the perfect devel- 
opment of the plant is the removal of 
all buds and blossoms from spring-set 
plants during the first season after setting. 
In one word, there should not be a single 
PLANT SHOWING HOW TO REMOVE BLOSSOMS 
WHEN setting your plants see that the crown stands above 
the soil as shown here. About two weeks after the plants 
are set they will start sending out fruit stems. As soon as 
the buds begin to open pinch or cut fruit stem off as shown 
by dotted lines in the illustration. Don't let a blossom fruit. 
strawberry permitted to ripen or even to 
form on the new plant the first year. The 
young plant will not be given a fair chance 
if you allow its strength to be absorbed in 
the production of buds and fruit. The thing 
to do is to pinch off each bud as it appears, 
thus encouraging the full strength of the 
plant to go into the work of building up a 
powerful fruiting system. Pollen-exhaustion 
is one of the severest drains upon the vitality 
of the strawberry plant. Therefore, we re- 
peat, keep off the buds the first summer if 
you would have a big crop of delicious fruit 
the following seasons. 
Removing Surplus Runner Plants 
A NOTHER important item in the develop- 
ment of a sturdy and vigorous plant is 
the careful removal of all surplus runners.^ 
The earlier the runner plant is nipped the bet- 
ter, for every day's growth draws so much 
the more upon the vital forces of the mother 
plant — forces that should be expended in her 
own development and the upbuilding of the 
plants that are required in the system de- 
cided upon. The extensive grower can hard- 
ly afford to do the work without the aid of 
our roller runner-cutter. And now that we 
have a handle-attachment runner-cutter, all 
growers, whether they cultivate by hand or 
with horse, should avail themselves of this 
quick and easy means of doing this work, and 
thus conserve the energy of the plants they 
have elected shall grow. The illustration on 
Page 64 suggests the simplicity and effect- 
iveness of the cutter. 
Sometimes the energetic mother plant will 
produce runner plants at fruiting tirrje, and 
often we are asked what shall be done with 
