GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co.. Three Rivers, Mich. 
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the earth is soft from re- 
cent rains, when they will 
easily be drawn from the 
earth and the vines and 
fruit will be least affected. 
But if the weather remains 
dry, take a sharp hoe and 
run it under the mulching 
in such a way as to shave 
off the weeds just below 
the surface of the soil. 
This will effectually dis- 
courage them. 
An Experience with 
Crab Grass 
TOURING the season of 
"-^ 1910 we visited a straw- 
berry field which had fallen 
a victim to crab grass. It 
brought to mind an expe- 
rience we had some years 
ago, when a hundred acres 
of our plants were threat- 
ened by this pest. Just as 
the crab grass appeared 
came a rainy season that 
seemed to be prepared for 
an entire summer's cam- 
paign, and for a time we 
were puzzled to discover a 
way out of the difficulty, 
as we could neither cultivate or hoe under 
the circumstances. The foreman of the hoe- 
ing gang was given instructions to station his 
MR. FREESE S RESIDENCE 
^OTE the neatness of everythinp: about this house. A little 
work morninjfs and eveninjrs keeps the place up in this 
fine condition, and Mr. Froese and his pood wife find pleasure 
and health in keeping the entire place in apple-pie order. 
men in a building located about the center of 
the farm and to have them run out during 
every interval between showers and pull crab 
PRIDES OF MICHIGAN GROWN BY JACOB FREESE 
1|^pE visited Mr. Preese's garden during fruiting time in 1910 and found his vines 
loaded with just such berries as those shown here. These berries are shown at 
actual size. A few dollars invested in Kellogg Thoroughbred plants, cultivated by the 
"Kellogg way" will furnish you just such berries as these throughout the entire fruit- 
ing season, will supply you with all you retiuire for canning and preserving for winter, 
and enough to sell to more than doubly pay all expenses. In short, you will have all 
the berries your family can use and make a snug profit from the soxplus fruit grovni. 
grass for all they were worth. A force of 
sixty men, working under these disadvan- 
tages, succeeded in freeing the farm for the 
time being of this pest, and, as a result of 
thorough cultivation, when autumn came the 
fields were entirely free from crab grass. 
How One Farmer Did the Business 
/^NE practical farmer thus describes the 
^ method he adopted to get rid of the pest. 
He says: "We had about four acres of quack 
(or crab) grass that was so thick we could 
not plow it. It crowded out buckwheat and 
other crops we planted. I got a good sharp 
steel plow and plowed it in the spring, then 
disked it twice a week until the grass began 
to show a little life in the pasture. I then 
plowed it again and disked as before until 
about the 28th of June. I plowed it once 
more and harrowed it and put on three pecks 
of German millet. The millet came up at 
once and covered the ground so thickly that 
what little quack grass might be left was 
completely smothered out. I plowed again 
late in the fall and sowed to oats the follow- 
ing spring. The next fall there was not a 
root to be found in the whole four acres. 
I think this plan of killing quack grass is a 
