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KELLOGG’S Great Crops of STRAWBERRIES And How to Grow Them THE KELLOGG WAY

1922

R. M. KELLOGG CO. THREE RIVERS, MICH.

Our Credentials

GEO. F. WOLF, PRESIDENT F. E. BEATTY, VICE PRES. H. C. KAAS, CASHIER W. WATERS, JR., ASST. CASHIER C. A. DENTZLER, ASST. CASHIER

FIRST STATE SAVINGS BANK

CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $100,000.00

THREE RIVERS, MICH.

To Whom it May Concern:

We are personally acquainted with the officers and management of R. M. Kellogg Company of Three Rivers, Mich., and take pleasure in endorsing their ideals and business methods as the very highest.

Mr. F. E. Beatty, President and General Manager, is Vice President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of this Bank and in our many intimate business relations he has stood out conspicuously as a man of strict integrity. It is but a natural consequence that under his capable, efficient management, R. M. Kellogg Company has become the world’s largest exclusive strawberry plant nursery.

We unhesitatingly recommend this Company to any prospective buyer of strawberry plants with assurance of fair, courteous treatment also that Kellogg Pedigree Plants will be found exactly as represented.

FIRST STATE SAVINGS BANK

President

Your Assurance of Vigorous, Healthy Plants

MICHIGAN CERTIFICATE OF NURSERY INSPECTION

This is to certify that I have examined the nursery stock of R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich., and find it apparently free from dangerous insects and dangerously contagious tree and plant diseases.

L. R. TAFT, State Inspector of Nurseries and Orchards.

(NOTE--A copy of this Certificate of Inspection accompanies every shipment of Kellogg Pedigree Plants. We also attach State Certificate or Permit to conform to requirements of each State.)

This entire book is fully protected by U. S. Copyright. Unauthorized use of any of the illustrations or text contained herein constitutes an infringement which will be vigorously prosecuted.

R. M. KELLOGG CO.

R.M.KELLOGG CO. [Illustration] THREE RIVERS, MICH.

Success Demands Progress!

Characteristic of the mighty oak has been the development and growth of our Company, the origin of which dates back through many years to a modest beginning having as its inception, a firm belief in the World’s demand for bigger crops of better strawberries.