GREAT CROPSy STRAWBERMSondflow TO GROW THEM 
A KELLOGG STRAWBERRY GARDEN GROWING IN A FRONT YARD 
Right out in the front yard on a heautlful paved street, Mrs. Henry Ganger. Goshen, Ind., has ii Kellogg Strawberry Garden 
■which is supplying her family with all the herries they can use picked fresh from the vines during the summer and prepared in 
different ways for winter. 
year. If they are grown in single hedge rows, two 
new runner plants should be allowed to develop on 
each of the plants which is left. This gives the 
same arrangement as the first year. We do not 
recommend the matted row, but those who follow 
this system should narrow flown the rows after the 
foliage has been iriowed off and removed. This 
work is done with either small bar shear, or common 
breaking plow. Simply throw a furrow from either 
side of the row, leaving a ridge, or what is commonly 
known as a back furrow between each two rows. 
These ridges should b" leveled down with cultivator 
or harrow. In narrowing down th<! matted rows, 
the strip of plants allow(ul to remain should be 
about six inch(!s wide. 'I'hese should be thinned 
out with hoe, leaving hills about twenty to twenty- 
four inches apart, and if the grower wishes to con- 
tinue following the matted row .system, runner 
plants shoulfl be allowed to form the same as the 
first year. After the rows have been narrowed 
down, the bed may be harrow(Kl both ways without 
injuring the plants. In family gardens, the rows 
may be narrowed down with spade and the soil 
leveled with garden rake. 
After the bed has fruited two years, the plants 
should be plowed or spaded und<!r, as it is poor 
practice to allow plants to fruit more than two 
years. Some growers allow plants to fruit two or 
three years and then tak<' plants from the old 
fruiting bed for setting a new bed. It is imneces- 
sary to say that the.se growers find strawberry 
growing unprofitable. After plants have fruited 
two years, their fruit [)roduciiig organism has been 
weakened which makes them unfruitful and con- 
sequently unprofitable. 
No grower should invite failure by trying to 
grow both fruit and plants in the same bed at the 
same tim<! or by ,setting plants which have been 
taken from a fruiting bed. 
Pedigree Plants and Why You Should 
Set Them 
The quality of the plants you set determines 
the quality and quantity of berries which you will 
harvest, because the plants are the very foundation 
of your berry crop. The cosf of preparing your 
soil, fertilizing, setting the plants, cultivation, etc., 
is the same wliether you have plants that will pro- 
duce 2,000 or 10,000 quarts to the acre. There- 
fore, can you afford to use your land and spend 
your time and hard-earned dollars with plants 
which cannot possibly produce more than the ex- 
pense of growing the crop? 
During the past few years the Illinois Central 
Railroad (company has observed a decided tlecrease 
in shipments of southern strawberries. In 1916 
this condition became so alarming that Mr. W. L. 
Park, Vice-President of this railroad decided to 
investigate thoroughly the cause of this decrease. 
For this investigation he selected Dr. 1'^. L. Stevens 
Professor of Plant Pathology of the University of 
Illinois, and Mr. Frank \i. Beatly, President of 
R. M. Kellogg Co. A most thorough investigation 
by these two experts throughout the southern 
strawberry districts reveah^d the fact that almost 
without exception, the small yields had resulted 
from the growers taking plants for their new 
settings from fruiting bt^ds. The few growers who 
used strong, fruitful plants were still realizing 
profitabh? crops. 
One of these few growers reported that he seldom 
made less than .?.500 per acre each year, and another 
was making blotter than .fl,01)l) per acre The 
Illinois C(!ntral Railroad now has established a 
demonstration strawbarry farm at Hammond, La., 
where Kellogg Pedigree plants will be used for 
I)ropagating and demonstrating purposes, hoping 
thereby to get the growers interested in a strain 
of plants that will give them big, profitable crops. 
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