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84 Hours and Still Going Good 
After its worthy characteristics were discovered, it 
was put through the most severe tests of hauling, 
handling and the like, to test its firmness and lasting 
glossy red color. For instance, a number of quarts 
of “Kanner King” were picked on a Thursday after¬ 
noon in warm June, kept over night in a basement, 
placed in the back of a car the next afternoon and 
hauled fifty miles to the Michigan State Experiment 
Station at South Haven, Mich. There they were kept 
in an office building until Saturday morning, when 
they were supposed to have been canned by a can¬ 
ning company. There was no canning being done on 
that Saturday, consequently these "Kanner King" berries 
were placed in storage and not canned until Monday 
morning. 84 hours after being picked from the vines, and 
there were less than one berry per every two quarts not 
cannable. In other words, after being off the vines for 84 
hours with much hauling and handling, nearly every berry 
was still in perfect condition for canning. Berries like 
“Kanner King" are what canners, commission merchants, 
and grocerymen have been wanting for a long time. Read 
what the Michigan State Experiment Station says about 
Keith’s "Kanner King.” (Letter in next column to left.) 
Keith's 
f Kanner King 
The best strawberry for home 
gardens for there Is none better for 
canning, preserves, jellies or jam. 
How and From Whence It Came 
Here’s a new variety of strawberry originated by 
the two Keith Brothers, two Strawberry Specialists, 
and offered for sale exclusively by them for the first 
time this spring. 
Keith's Kanner King—The Coming Commercial Strawberry 
Two Years of Severest Testing * 
For four years Keith’s “Kanner King” has stood c 
every test of severe handling—standing in crates 1 
in warm sun for days, in warm rooms, hauled for £ 
miles in trucks, frequent handling, and still it re- t 
tained its attractive bright red color and firmness. f 
It is ever so much firmer than the Premier, cans , 
better, stands up better in hauling, and is a better 
berry for all domestic and general market purposes. 
“Kanner King”—A Keith’s Standard 
it is the policy of the Keith Bros. Nursery to ] 
give their customers only the very best. That was t 
the reason that we got behind our Super-Mastodon 
Everbearing plants as we did, and now we're ' 
behind “Kanner King,” a variety of our own efforts, * 
a variety that has been wished for by commercial ' c 
growers since the old Warfield was discarded. 
Start With “Kanner King” This Spring ! 
“Kanner King" is being offered by Keith Bros, 
this spring for the fourth year. They hold the exclu- J 
Here Are Some of the Outstanding 
1 Plants hardy, thrifty growers, practically free from 
* diseases. 
2 Never fails to make a good wide row of thrifty 
plants, even in the driest of summers, for instance, 
1930 and 1931, two summers when it was so hot 
and dry. 
3 Bears over a long period from medium early until 
late. Often the plants are still blossoming at the 
\ end of tlie fruiting season. We have never known 
•juli V another spring variety to do this. 
4 Berries extra firm and solid, withstanding hauling 
and rough handling when others won’t. 
C Berries solid bright, glossy red, and red all over 
Five Years of Untiring Efforts 
It is the outcome of five years of most constant 
observation, selection and experimenting with over 
5,000 individual seedlings of strawberries. For five 
years close watch and records were taken daily all 
during the growing season, and it was in experi¬ 
mental block No. 34 that this supreme canning 
berry was found. All during the course of these five 
years, this variety went by No. 34, but owing to its 
most excellent canning, preserving, jam and jelly¬ 
making qualities, it was given its present name 
“Kanner King.” 
B. W. Keith 
IjM 1 ' << BEUT” 
n v «*i. The “Strawberry Twins” 
15. II. Keith They "told the world” about 
“BUD” their Super-Mastodon everbear¬ 
ing plants. NOW they have a now 
suprfcme canning berry for you. 
Here you meet the “Strawberry Twins," the 
two strawberry specialists who have 
brought about this new, outstanding va¬ 
riety of strawberries, Keith “Kanner King.” 
For many years they have sought a “perfect 
canning strawberry,”—one that was highly 
flavored, red throughout, and one that 
would keep its firmness and unusually 
bright red color after handling and canning. 
In order to develop a ffiew strawberry va¬ 
riety for a special purpose, there must be 
brought out certain characteristics that 
favor that purpose ancf to get these char¬ 
acters all outstanding] in one variety, is 
almost an endless tasM One simple little 
defect may spoil the whole combination so 
one must work on and on until his aim 
is realized. Cattle breeders know what to 
do to develop champion milk producers, 
chicken men know how to develop a high- 
laying strain of White Leghorns,—well, 
these two strawberry specialists, with years 
of practical experience and five years of 
scientific college training back of them, 
know what to do to develop the "perfect 
canning strawberry" and they did it,—re¬ 
sulting in their “Kanner King.” 
Starting with over 5,000 tiny baby seedling straw¬ 
berry plants of known parentage, for five years 
they kept a constant close watch and intensive 
records of their experimental beds and out of 
these thousands of baby seedling plants there 
developed that “perfect canning berry” they 
sought and now offer to the public this season 
for the first time. 
For Your 
Protection 
In order to protect our 
customers, also keep tills 
worthy variety pure and 
protect it from any un¬ 
scrupulous dealings on 
the part of concerns who 
are always ready to ex¬ 
ploit on a new variety 
for the first few years 
after its introduction. 
Had the variety patented 
in the U. S. Patent Of¬ 
fice under Plant Patent 
No. 26. 
What Michigan State Expert Says 
Michigan State Experiment Station, 
”- Michigan. 
South Haven, 
Keith Brothers Nurseries: 
Dear Mr. Keith:— 
We have been searching for several years for strawberry varieties that 
would meet the commercial canning requirements for this fruit In the 
course of this search we have tested your "Kanner King” berry. After 
observing It in the field for two years and completing two conning tests 
we have found that It is promising, and that it. can lie recommended for 
trial as a variety that is suitable for canning as well as for selling on 
the fresh fruit market 
Very truly yours, 
Stanley Johnston, 
Superintendent (Mich. State Expt Station). 
CANNED BERRIES 
Kanner King 
preserves 
Kanner KjlH- 
JAMS 
PRICES Down 30% 
Here are our remarkably 
low prices on Kanner King 
plants—within reach of 
everybody. Over 30% lower 
than last year. Probably 
never will be as low again. 
Buy now. 
PRICES 
25 for SO.75 50 for $1.25 
100 for 1.85 250 for 3.40 
500 for 4.85 1000 for 8.85 
NOTE—All Kanner King 
Plants are sold under U. S. 
Plant Patent No. 26. Not 
to be resold nor propogated 
for selling. 
KEITH BROTHERS 
NIJ RS ERYvXW/f/e Michigan 
STRAWBERRY 
HEADQUARTERS 
BUY NOW 
SAVE 30% OR MORE 
Now is the time to buy your 
Kanner King plants. They were 
never so low before, and prob¬ 
ably never will be as low again. 
Most things have gone up in 
price. Kanner King prices have 
dropped. Buy now. 
PRESERVES 
None better when made from 
Keith’s Kanner King. 
CANNED 
When yon can a Keith’s Kan¬ 
ner King you will have a Real 
Strawberry Flavor. 
Just like “M other used to 
make” when made from 
Keith’s Kanner King. 
