| Operations and Equipment Employedin Producing Kellogg Pedigree Plants | |||
| 1 HARVESTING ALFALFA HAY | 2 RYE AND VETCH | 3 ROLLING DOWN & DISCING | 4 PLOWING IT UNDER |
| 5 COWPEAS & BUCKWHEAT | 6 PLOWING IT UNDER | 7 HARROWING, ROLLING & SEEDING TO OATS | 8 SHREDDING MANURE |
| 9 HOEING, CULTIVATING & FERTILIZING | 10 HOEING PLANTS | ||
| 11 REMOVING BLOSSOMS | 12 SPRAYING | 13 IRRIGATING | 14 IRRIGATION PUMPING STATION |
| 15 GARAGE & MACHINE SHOP SHOWING TRACTORS & TRUCKS | 16 MULCHING FOR WINTER | 17 PACKING HOUSE WHERE PLANTS ARE COUNTED, PRUNED & PACKED FOR SHIPMENT | 18 A KELLOGG STRAWBERRY GARDEN PACKED FOR SHIPMENT |
The resulting growth seems almost magic for in a few weeks both the buckwheat and cow-peas are in bloom and the growth becomes so rank and dense that it is difficult if not actually impossible to progress far into the field afoot. Just before the seed ripens this growth is rolled down, cut up with disc and plowed under. The buckwheat adds humus and the cow-peas, (another legume), both humus and additional nitrogen. After this has been thoroughly worked into the soil and a perfect seed-bed again formed fall has arrived and the ground is seeded to oats.
The Final Rotation Crop
Oats serves a double purpose;—provides to a certain extent a winter protection against the porosity caused by alternate freezing and thawing and its decay renders the soil mellow and easily worked.
During the winter a top dressing of stable manure is applied at the rate of fifteen tons per acre and the oats and manure are plowed under just as early as the soil can be worked the following spring. The manure furnishes nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus in quantities which with that already furnished by the rotation crops, makes a properly balanced plant food.
Again it is worked and with spring tooth and disc harrows and rolled until it forms a pulverized seed-bed and after being marked into rows and cross marked, it is again ready for Kellogg Pedigree Plants.
We Practice and Recommend Spring Planting
We practice what we preach by setting our plants in the spring exclusively (during April or May) as we have found through many years of experience that spring setting gives surest results in the North. In the Southern States plants may be set with success either in the spring or fall.