HOW TO MAKE ONE ACRE 
DO THE WORK OF TWO 
IN MAKING one acre do the work of two, the 
three necessary requirements are highly pro- 
ductive plants, rich, fertile soil and intensive 
cultural methods. Strawberry plants may be 
likened to machines, the fertilizer to raw material, 
and the soil to a factory or workshop. 
The plants are the machines which make the 
strawboirics from the raw material contained in 
the soil, while the soil itself is nothing more or less 
than a workshop or place for setting these machines. 
Intensive cultural methods keep both the plant 
machines and their workshop in perfect working 
pondition at all times. 
In preparing the soil to make one acre do the 
work of two, apply from fifteen to twenty two-horse 
loads of any kind of stable manure per acre. Plow 
this under just as early in the spring as soil con- 
ditions will permit. Make the rows thirty inches 
apart and set the plants fifteen inches apart in the 
rows. Keep off all runners and follow the hill 
system. About four weeks after setting the plants, 
apply manure between the rows, using five or six 
two-horse loads per acre. Cultivate at least once 
every week when soil conditions will permit. Avoid 
cultivating when the soil is wet, but don't fail to 
cultivate just as soon after every rain as soil condi- 
tions are favorable. These repeated cultivations 
thoroughly incorporate the top dressing of manure 
with the top layer of the soil, aid in retaining moist- 
ure, and prevent the formation of crust. Continue 
cultivating until late in the fall and keep the plants 
free from all obnoxious growth at all times. Mulch 
the plants soon after the first freeze, and remove the 
mulching which lies directly over them in the spring 
before new growth starts. 
If you set plants of the highest fruiting quality, 
each plant contributing its full share toward the 
crop, and follow the intensive methods outlined 
here, you will grow more berries on one acre than 
can possibly be produced on two acres grown in any 
other way. 
Can you afford to plow, set, and cultivate two 
acres the old way, when you can grow more berries 
and make a greater profit from one acre with less 
work and expense by following these intensive 
methods, which make your soil richer, more pro- 
ductive, and therefore more valuable from year to 
year? Your profit is not determined by the number 
of acres you set to strawberries. It's the dollars 
you have left from each acre at the close of the 
season that determines the size of your profits. 
These are the methods followed on the Kellogg 
farms, and they have proved so profitable to us 
that we unhesitatingly recommend them to our 
customers. We invite you to visit our farms and 
see for yourself that we practice what we preach, 
and that it is possible to make one acre do the work 
of two. 
A KELLOGG STRAWBERRY GARDEN WITH A RECORD FROM THREE RIVERS TO PENNSYLVANIA 
AND BACK AGAIN 
The plnnU shown in this picture were shipped to n customer in Pennsylvania, where they were kept for a day or two. ThrouKh 
a mistake they were rotiirncj to us. and after several days one of our neichbors, Mr. James Snyder, purchased them and set them 
m a vacant lot. Notwillistnnding the fact that they had been out of the ground fully two weeks, every plant lived and produced 
an cnonnous crop of hemes just as though nothniB unusual had happened. This small patch produced between 500 and 600 
qunrta of fancy berries in 1917. This should convince oven the most skeptical that KcUogg Pedigree Plants are the hardiest and 
most productive plants grown. o e> v « 
