alone’ Riow We Used to uel 












COMPOUND ENGINES AND STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
Until within the past few years every 
steam engine wasted a large part of 
the power developed in the boiler. 
The engineer said no engine would 
ever be built which could use the 
same steam twice, but they are doing 
it now. So too, the strawberry plant 
having in its body crude machinery 
wasted the “steam” and pressure of 
the “boiler” (manure and tillage). It 
You will be amused at the quaint- 
ness of style and the arguments 
used in the little literary sketches 
published on these two pages. 
They appeared in our catalogs 
nearly 40 years ago, and 
we ourselves still take 
great delight in reading 
them, even after having 
done so time and time 
again. They will make 
you chuckle, 
yes, but they 
will make you 
think. too? 
There really is 
a difference in 
the productivity 
of strawberry 
plants and it 
will pay you to 
think before 
you buy, for 

is not so now. New “machinery” 
has been developed in the plant 
which turns all waste into “Big, Red 
Berries.” Read carefully, slowly, 
think hard, study each line and you 
will know the why, which, how and 
when about it. 




Throw That Bag-Stone Away 
THE GRANDDADDY BLIND 
A person may be said to be granddaddy blind when he 
persists in following minutely in the steps of his father, 
grandfather and great-grandfather, and who cannot be 
induced to accept the marvelous discoveries growing out 
of modern specialism. Our ancestors knew nothing as to 
how plants lived, how they multiplied or why we can graft 
all sorts of fruit on different limbs of the same tree and 
ect the same fruit as the tree from which the bud was 
taken, 
The story of the bag-stone serves to illustrate the point. 
The families of our Puritan fathers all kept a bag-stone. 
There were few roads in those days and the grain was 
carried to mill on horseback, being put in one end of the 
bag and a great stone in the other end to make it balance. 
Other things were carried in the same way. One day a 
boy approaching a mill was accosted by a gentleman who 
told him to get off and throw out that great useless stone. 
The boy dismounted and the man helped him to take out 
the stone and divide the grain and put it back. The boy 
was delighted. He wondered why his father had not 
thought of that before. The horse walked better under the 
lighter load and he could get back home sooner. But he 
began to soliloquize. He regarded his father a smart man, 
his grandfather was a captain in the army and his great- 
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Putting Back the Bag-Stone 

grandfather one of the selectmen of the town and he felt 
they were smarter men than the man who had coaxed him 
to throw away the family bag-stone. He began to doubt 
whether the miller could make good flour out of grain car- 
ried to mill without the regulation bag-stone and felt sure 
his father would trounce him for spoiling the grain in that 
way, and so returned, replaced the stone and felt he had 
narrowly averted a disaster by accepting the advice of 
a crank. 
Just look around you and see how many useless append- 
ages in the form of bag-stones are still being carried by 
the already overburdened man. Are you sure you are not 
granddaddy blind when you refuse to accept the aid of 
modern discoveries and divide the grain so you carry 
nothing but grain? 
Look into your berry fields and see the barren plants or 
those having no machinery in their bodies to make berries 
and yet after the fashion of your fathers continue to throw 
coal (manure) under the boiler (plant) and force an en- 
gine (plant) with a broken valve to develop power (fruit). 
Now, my friend, the moral of this story is that a respect- 
able majority of people in your community are now and 
will remain granddaddy blind in the berry business and 
you can throw out the bag-stone, adopt the better methods, 
be a leader, and build up a business you will really enjoy 
and provide liberally for your family and old age. 
R. M. KELLOGG COMPANY 
