. Kellogg's great crops of small fruits : and how to grows them. Nurseries (Horticulture) Michigan Three Rivers Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs. > - i. Irrigation Scene. Perfect conditions produce perfect plants. IRRIGATION. The largest crops and finest fruit we ever grew were produced without irrigation by holding the rains of winter and spring in the ground by frequent surface tillage and mulching quite heavily between the rows in winter which prevented evaporation the next season until after fruit was picked, but here our work requires new conditions. We are breeding plants with
. Kellogg's great crops of small fruits : and how to grows them. Nurseries (Horticulture) Michigan Three Rivers Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs. > - i. Irrigation Scene. Perfect conditions produce perfect plants. IRRIGATION. The largest crops and finest fruit we ever grew were produced without irrigation by holding the rains of winter and spring in the ground by frequent surface tillage and mulching quite heavily between the rows in winter which prevented evaporation the next season until after fruit was picked, but here our work requires new conditions. We are breeding plants with the view of improving their physical condition and they must be allowed to spread all over the ground and not be thrown around in a mat by the cultivator but each must have its own root pasturage and sunlight to develop the fruit forming habit. This can readily be accomplished by the fruit grower who has only a small plat and propagates from plants already bred to the highest standard. The dust mulch is easily maintained by the garden hoe but here we are striving to produce the best "Mother Plants" in the world, and we are going to accomplish it. It is now and shall continue to be the headquarters of fruit growers in this line. The past excessively dry July, August, September and fore part of October kept the surface of the ground so dry that plants could not root and my correspondence with nurserymen shows that large well rooted plants are not to be had while our plants are the largest we ever grew because we were able to keep them perfectly healthy by spraying and the exact degree of moisture required in the soil at all times so that growth was natural and I have been able to develop the best quality in them. Our plant consists of a No. 6 centrifugal pump with a rated max- imum capacity of 1400 gallons per minute, made by the Morris Machine Works, Baldwinsville, New York. The power is furnished by a twenty-five horse power gasoline engine, made by Olds &Son, Lan
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