GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
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C. W. HOGUE'S FIELD OF KELLOGG THOROUGHBREDS AT FRANKLINVILLE, N. Y. 
'pHIS field, coverins: one-fifth of an acre, yielded 1,365 quarts of strawberries in 1910, "and this," writes Mr. Hogue, "in the 
face of a bad drouth in the fruiting season." He adds: "I am a close reader of all your literature, and an experience of five 
years with the KelloBK strain has proved to me that these plants always make good when given proper conditions and care." 
is delightful recreation, to which is added 
the pleasure and profit of the delicious fruit, 
all the sweeter and more satisfying because 
it is the product of his own labor ! In Port- 
land, Oregon, the City of Roses, we have 
seen beautiful strawberry beds in the front 
yards of beautiful and fashionable residences; 
anywhere just to have berries of their own 
growing. And the strawberry plants were 
as attractive and beautiful as were the roses. 
And the farmer who has no strawberries — 
what can be the matter with the man in his 
situation who lets slip by such a chance to 
get something worth while almost without 
cost? Fortunately the number of this sort 
of farmers is growing steadily smaller as they 
awake to the situation, and every year the 
number of farmers is increasing who insist 
upon enjoying the good things of life. And 
one of the first steps they take in the right 
direction is to lay out a strawberry patch 
and set it out to high-quality strawberries. 
We have especial reasons for knowing this is 
so, for when the farmer does wake up he 
wakes up all over, and judging from our 
own experience his first thought on the 
strawberry line is to get some Thorough- 
breds in order that he may start right. We 
hope that this movement of the farmer is to 
become universal. With an abundance of 
fertilizer, with many choice acres from which 
to select he may be sure of an ideal location, 
and with every implement and necessary help 
at hand for the work, he may be sure of pro- 
ducing splendid crops. Then, with an abund- 
ance of cream from his dairy, he has on his 
own place produced the elements for a feast 
for the gods ! 
Nitrates In an Old Fruiting Bed 
MANY strawberry growers find, after the 
first crop of fruit has been picked, that 
their plants show signs of a lack of fer- 
tility in the soil. To stimulate them for fu- 
