GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 31 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
SEVEN THOUSAND QUARTS PER ACRE DESPITE SERIOUS DROUTH 
'I'JtllS illustration presents a view of a portion of O. J. Wigen's four-and-a-half -acre strawberry patch, composed of Kcllogrsr's 
Thoroughbreds, at Wynndel, British Columbia. Mr. Wigen writes under date of August 28, 1910, that the drouth in that 
eection of the continent was unprecedented, resulting in a yield of strawberries that reached only about 25 per cent of an aver- 
age crop. "For my part, however," he says, "I had 60 per cent of a crop, or 1.30O 24-quart crates from four and one-half 
acres." It is not to be wondered at that Mr. Wigen ia an enthusiastic friend of Kellogg plants and follower of Kellogg's way. 
berry that I allowed to mature I can see that 
the fruit will be as good as the plant. 
"My Fendalls are doing well and making 
heaps of runners." 
How to Find the Big Money-Makers 
STRAWBERRY GROWERS who do not 
have a testing plot for the purpose of 
trying out the different varieties are 
making a costly mistake, because this is the 
only way they may definitely determine the 
true value of a variety. Every year many 
new varieties are being introduced, some of 
which are very valuable, and would not only 
increase the yield of berries, but would 
lengthen the season of fruiting as well. This 
also is true of many of the old and tried va- 
rieties. Of course we would not encourage 
any grower to discard the varieties which he 
has found profitable, but we do urge every- 
one who is aiming to secure highest results 
to establish a testing plot where he can each 
year test out those new varieties which give 
promise of becoming great fruiters, as well 
as the older varieties which he never has 
tested under his particular conditions of soil 
and climate. 
The cost of such a testing plot should not 
be figured as expense, because the fruit pro- 
duced from the plot will more than cover all 
the outlay of money and time. And if you 
find one or two varieties out of those tested 
each season which prove to be more product- 
ive, or which give berries of better quality 
than those which you now are using as your 
leaders, the gain may not be estimated. 
Many progressive growers who have adopted 
this plan say that they attribute their suc- 
cess to the testing plot. The same growers 
say that the pleasure and enjoyment they 
get in a study of the different varieties as 
they develop, and in noting their varying pe- 
culiarities, are equalled in no other experience 
in the work. 
The testing plot requires but very small 
space. Suppose you take fifty plants each 
of twelve varieties that you never before 
have grown, and that you make the rows 
three feet apart and set the plants two feet 
apart in the rows. This would require a 
space 36x100 feet only. Each row of each 
variety could be divided into four parts, one- 
fourth being grown in hills; one-fourth in 
single-hedge, one fourth in double-hedge, 
and still another fourth in matted rows. This 
method will give you an opportunity to de- 
termine the best system under which to grow 
each variety tested; and the varieties which 
