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GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
FOURTEEN THOUSAND QUARTS FROM TEN THOUSAND KELLOGG PLANTS 
'pHIS illustration represents a view of the berry field of E. J. Brown of Bloomsburg-. Pa., during the fruiting season of 1909 
The plants are of the well-known strain of Kellogg's famous pedigree plants set during the spring of 1908. From ten thou- 
sand plants Mr. Brown picked fourteen thousand baskets of big red berries, having picked as many as fifty bushels at a single 
picking. Mr, Brown is a very enthusiastic strawberry grower and not only uses Kellogg plants, but follows the Kellogg way. 
threatened; and Bordeaux mixture for fun- 
gous diseases. Herewith are formulas for 
them: 
Bordeaux Mixture — Put four pounds of 
blue vitriol into a coarsely woven sack — a po- 
tato or coffee sack will serve; pour twenty 
gallons of water in a barrel and so hang the 
sack on the rim of the barrel that the bottom 
of the sack will rest on top of the water. 
This allows free circulation of air about the 
vitriol, which causes rapid dissolution, and 
the poison soon will completely saturate the 
water Then take four pounds of lump lime, 
place it in a wooden vessel, pour over it 
enough hot water to cover the lime — say two 
gallons. When the lime begins to slake, stir 
it vigorously to prevent burning. When the 
lime is slaked thoroughly pour it into a second 
barrel containing a sufficient quantity of wa- 
ter to make twenty gallons of the lime solu- 
tion. When this has cooled, stir thoroughly 
both the barrel of lime water and the barrel 
of blue vitriol and mix them. You will thus 
have forty gallons of spray material. Stir this 
thoroughly before putting into the sprayer. 
Arsenate of Lead — Put three pounds of 
arsenate of lead in a bucket, and pour over 
just enough hot water to cover. Then pul- 
verize the lead until it has become a creamy 
paste, adding water until the mixture has 
become a creamy solution. Then stir into 
from forty to fifty gallons of water. 
Paris Green — Take one pound of unslaked 
lime and put over it seven ounces of Paris 
green. Pour over these two gallons of hot 
water, and when the mixture is complete 
add water to make fifty gallons. 
Combining the Sprays 
OOMETIMES a grower will find it necessary 
^ to spray for both insects and fungous dis- 
eases at the same time. In such a case sim- 
ply combine the two mixtures as above de- 
scribed where Bordeaux and arsenate of lead 
are to be used jointly. Where Paris green 
and Bordeaux are to be used in a combined 
spray you may take seven ounces of the Paris- 
green powder, and after dissolving with one 
pound of lime in two gallons of hot water, 
add to the forty gallons of Bordeaux mixture. 
Of course, the proportions named here will 
be preserved in the making of a larger or 
smaller quantity of spraying material, as the 
needs of the individual grower may require. 
Mulching Strawberry Plants 
MULCHING the plants is one of the most 
important features to be considered, 
and we cannot lay too much emphasis 
on this point. In northerly latitudes where 
freezing and thawing begin early to alternate, 
as well as in those colder sections where freez- 
ing weather comes to stay for a while, mulch 
should be applied after the first hard freeze 
in the fall. Here we must protect the vines 
from the cold weather, so we cover them 
over, using about two and a half tons of good 
straw .to the acre to go over the vines them- 
