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GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
FAJVULY PATCH OF O. T. WHITED 
'T'HIS picture tells its own story. It is interesting, however, as illustrating- what may be done on a small piece of ground 
with a few hundred strawberry plants. They are Kellogg Thoroughbred Pedigree plants, cultivated by the Kellogg methods. 
interesting, becaxise the writer started in 
filled with doubt, which was changed to en- 
thusiastic certainty as a result of her success: 
Olympia, Ky., June 18. 
R. M. Kellogg Co., 
Three Rivers, Mich. 
Gentlemen:— We saw your advertisement in Farm Journal 
some two years ago and sent for your book. When we re- 
ceived it we liked it very much, although we thought your 
pictures and descriptions of be. ries were overdrawn. But we 
decided to order a thousand plants from you anyway and fol- 
low your instructions, and see what they would do. We re- 
ceived the plants in fine condition, heeled them in and pre- 
pared the ground to set them. Almost every one of the plants 
lived and started to grow immediately. 
We followed your instructions closely, and last fall when we 
mulched them they looked like the picture of some of the cuts 
in the catalog. This spring when we began to gather the fruit 
we received our greatest surprise— the Clyde and Parsons' 
Beauty were larger than any of the berries we have seen illus- 
trated in your book ! When we took them to market they were 
by far the nicest berries, either home-grown or shipped-in, 
on the market. We gathered 650 quarts and sold 644 quarts 
for which we received $60.73, this notwithstanding the fact 
that the season was so rainy that two-fifths of the berries rot- 
ted in the patch. Now our season is over and we are very 
much pleased with your plants and more than pleased with 
the fruit they grow; and we have j)erfect confidence in your in- 
structions. This is our first experience in raising strawberries. 
Winnie Johnston. 
Any intelligent woman who will follow the 
instructions given in this book, adjusting 
them to the particular conditions in which 
she is to carry on the work; who will use 
only the best of plants and give them only 
the best of care; who will use good judgment 
in picking, packing and marketing her crop, 
insisting that the bottom of the box shall be 
as good as the top — any woman, we repeat, 
may under these conditions confidently count 
upon winning a good livelihood and some- 
thing more in her strawberry fields. It is in 
truth her golden opportunity. 
Strawberries in Family Gardens 
EVERY garden ought to have its straw- 
berry patch, and even though the garden 
may be limited to a city lot, or to more 
ample areas on the farm, strawberries ought 
to form an important feature in that garden. 
Among our patrons are hundreds whose 
homes are in crowded city blocks, yet from 
them we get some of the mo.st enthusiastic 
reports of success with strawberries. Nor 
are the results insignificant, for some of them 
not only grow all the fruit required for 
"home consumption," but their succsss is so 
great that they have a generous surplus to 
sell to hungry neighbors. Some of our friends 
thus situated will take a plot 10x10 feet, 
and setting the plants one foot apart each 
way and cultivating by the hill system, will 
produce big crops of fruit from one hundred 
plants. To the city man, employed in bank 
or oflfice, or shop, the time spent in the patch 
