CANTALOUPE CULTURE AND PEDIGREED CANTALOUPE SEED. 





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Plate No. 121. A Vine Rusted on Check Row. 2. Adjacent Vine Showing 



Resistance to Rust. 



PLANT DISEASES 



Crop rotation, seed selection, or breeding for disease resistance offer 

 the best means of controlling plant diseases; the spraying of the crop 

 with the Bordeaux mixture or other fungicides is about the only other 

 means at hand. In Colorado, spraying has not proven as successful as 

 is reported to be in other states, doubtless due to different climatic con- 

 ditions. 



Careful control of irrigation seems to offer one means of lessening 

 the attacks of some of the fungus troubles in the arid sections. 



HARVESTING 



After all injuries to the crop have been explained and remedial 

 measures suggested, there still remains one great cause of poor returns 

 from the cantaloupe crop, viz. .careless and unscrupulous methods of mar- 

 keting. When cantaloupes are scarce and sales are quick, there seems 

 to be no power on earth that will stay the hand of the average grower 

 as he pushes his crop onto the market, with the encouragement of advices 

 from his progressive (?) commission merchant; together they have pro- 

 duced a glutted market with inferior products, instead of protecting the 

 markets with a quality that would increase consumption, they simply let 

 it fill up with everything and anything, and neither the grower or the 

 consumer is benefitted. It is common for growers to admit that they 

 are shipping cantaloupes that are not fit to be eaten, and it is not strange 

 that a similar complaint comes from the consumer. 



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