GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
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MRS. WILL OLIVER'S FIELD OF THOROUGHBRED PEDIGREE STRAWBERRY PLANTS AT MONONA, IOWA 
UNDER date of September 10, 1910, Mrs. Oliver writes us as follows: "The thousand Thoroughbred Pedigree strawberry 
plants I bought of you are fine. Fruitmen from a great many places have come to see them, and all of them unite in declar- 
ing my field the finest they ever have seen. R. W. Randall, an old strawberry grower, who would rather work in strawberries 
than do anything else, says they are the finest plants he ever saw. The thousand plants which we bought in 1908 give me 2,000 
quarts of berries this season, although we had two weeks of hard freezing weather at blooming time, the mercury falling as 
low as nineteen degrees below zero. I wish to thank you for the very fine selection of strawberry plants you made for me." 
and spotted and a disappointment as long as 
it stands. My advice w^ould be to wait until 
spring, say April, and set the plants then. 
Keep them growing then all summer, and 
the next season you will have a strawberry 
patch to be proud of." 
Strawberry Success in Michigan 
ONE of the most interesting movements 
intended to develop the resources of a 
large section of country is that now 
going forward under the direction of the 
Western Michigan Development Company. 
This corporation is composed of a large num- 
ber of citizens of several counties composing 
the north-western section of the lower penin- 
sula of Michigan, and the splendid work this 
company is doing doubtless will result in 
transforming the pine and hard-wood bar- 
rens of that section into one vast garden of 
fruits and flowers. One of the pushing men 
who stand behind this movement is C. N. 
Russell of Manistee, Mich. For several years 
Mr. Russell has been a grower of Kellogg 
Thoroughbred Pedigree strawberries, his 
favorite variety being the Dornan. Under 
date of October 21, 1909, Mr. Russell wrote 
us as follows: 
"I take pleasure in writing you regarding 
results secured from Kellogg strawberry 
plants in this latitude. I am giving you be- 
low the figures on almost one acre of berries. 
Nearly all of the plants used came from 
R. M. Kellogg Co. and were perfectly satisfac- 
tory in every particular. I make a specialty 
of large late berries. My berries are crated 
when packed, each berry being carefully laid 
by hand in a dry-measure basket, and the 
berries are picked with a good long stem left 
on them. I shipped berries the past season 
that netted me $3.50 per case of 16 quarts, 
running from 18 to 24 berries to each quart 
basket. As to cash results, would say that 
the first crop grown from these plants yield- 
ed me $485.00 in cash, and the second crop 
$528.00, making a total yield of $1,013.00 
for the two seasons. 
"The excellent shipping facilities which 
this particular locality enjoys make it possi- 
ble for me to put my berries on any of the 
large markets in this section of the country 
within twenty-four hours of the time they 
are picked. Allow me in closing to congrat- 
