KELLOGG EVERlSliARERS GROWN IN HILLS THE KELLOGG WAY 
This dhows a secliou of a row of Kellosp PediKree Everbearing PlanU grown in hills. Kach hill in this garden was nearly 
us large as a bushel_ basket, and no plants could possibly produce more big. fancy berries than these plants produced. If you 
want a big crop of big. fancy berries every year, with no disappointments, grow Keitogg Pedigree Plants in hills the Kellogg Way. 
cut deeply into the soil. By cultivating shallow, 
an ideal dust mulch will be formed and the soil 
will not be thrown over the crowns of the plants. 
The more often you cultivate, the less you will be 
troubled with weeds. A cultivation every week or 
ten days is none too often during dry weather; but 
do not cultivate when the soil is wet. Cultivation 
serves many purposes. It controls obnoxious 
growths, prevents the formation of crust, maintains 
a dust mulch, which retains moisture, and makes 
conditions unfavorable for underground insects, 
thereby insuring strong, sturdy, vigorous plants 
which will develop to their fullest capacity. The 
hand hoe should be used occasionally to loosen the 
soil around the plants and directly in the row where 
the cultivator teeth do not reach. We find the 
Planet Jr. 12-tooth cultivator ideal for field work, 
and the Planet Jr. hand cultivator best for garden 
work. A common garden rake also will answer 
the purpose. Strawberry plants should be culti- 
vated throughout the entire growing season right 
up until fall. It requires only about three hours 
to cultivate an acre with a Planet Jr. 12-tooth 
cultivator. The work is done easily and at little 
cost, and the increased returns which result from 
thorough cultivation make it highly profitable to 
the grower. 
Different Systems 
The system you follow in growing strawberries 
will determine largely the quality and quantity of 
berries your plants will produce. There are several 
ditl'erent systems — the hill, <r'.ngle-hedge, double- 
hedge, and narrow and wide matted rows, and of 
these different systems, we will describe only those 
which are most profitable — those which produce 
not only the largest quantities of berries but berries 
also of the highest quality. We have thoroughly 
tested out all the different systems and have 
learned that the two which we describe here are 
the only profitable ones either for home use or for 
market. 
Hill System 
This is unquestionably the most profitable 
system for growing strawberries. Rows should be 
made thirty inches apart and plants set fifteen 
inches apart in the rows. All runners should be 
pruned regularly. This will result in producing 
large, vigorous, well-developed plant.s, because the 
strength which otherwise would be expended in 
producing runner plants is used in building up one 
large, perfectly developed plant, having a powerful 
fruiting system. A fruit tree which is not relieved 
of its surplus growth will not fruit profitably, but 
when the tree is pruned, the energy which would 
have been used up by the unnecessary growth, goes 
to develop fertile fruit buds. The same principle 
which governs fruit trees also applies to strawberry 
plants. It is just as impossible for a strawberry 
plant to produce a large crop of high quality berries 
when it already has expended its energy in pro- 
ducing a large number of runner plants. When 
plants are grown in hills, their energy is utilized 
in building up a heavy crown or bud system, upon 
which depends the crop of berries. The hill system 
gives a larger crop of fancy berries than any of the 
other systems because each plant has a large 
feeding area, sufficient to develop both plant and 
fruit, and the sun and air have full access. 
It is true that the hill system means some 
work in removing runners, but this is offset by the 
saving in working around runner plants and culti- 
vating which is necessary when the matted row 
system is followed, as much less work is required to 
keep the field or garden free from weeds and grass 
when the plants are grown in hills than when they 
are grown in matted rows. If the plants are set 
in check rows, they may be cultivated both ways 
which leaves but very little work to be done with 
the hoe. 
This system requires 14,000 plants per acre. 
Single-Hedge Row System 
Next to the hill system, we recommend the single 
heage row system. The rows should be made 
thirty-six inches apart and plants set about twenty- 
four inches apart in the rows. Kavh of these plants 
should be allowed to make two rimner plants, 
which should be layered, one on each side of the 
mother plant, directly in line with the original 
row. /Ml other runners should be pruned off 
regularly. The runners are easily pruned off with 
the lioe when hoeing, or they may be pinched off 
