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the other side. It is not reasonable to suppose that, if you 

 have got a plot on one side of your farm and another on the 

 otlier side, a bee is going to travel right from one side to the 

 other. It is absolutely impossible to keep perfectly straight all 

 the time from cross pollenization, because you haven't got the 

 chance to control that that you have in the animal world. Pol- 

 len flies sometimes with the wmd, and it is also carried by the 

 bees. But take the other side of it. What are you getting 

 when you go away from home? You do not know what you 

 get. Then there is considerable in climatization. You bring 

 those cantaloupes that I was talking about to the North and 

 they fall down the vdry first season. They do not cut as good, 

 the flesh is not as g-ood, and thev have not the flavor or the 

 texture that the variety has after it has become acclimated. 

 But you take the Jersey red cantaloupe, and you can improve 

 that all the time. I know of one kind that has been on one 

 farm for twenty-eight years. 



A Member : I would like to ask the gentleman how long 

 he makes his farm produce melons? 



Mr. Hulsart : A\'hy. as a rule, we can keep the crop 

 right up through tlie melon season, but there are certain in- 

 stances wdien }ou cannot do that. The blight may strike it, 

 and I imagine it may be killed off by fungus diseases. Of 

 course, it is in some seasons, or would be if you did not take 

 care of it. In our section of the country we are never struck 

 with that only between the 18th of August and the 24tli, and 

 if we can get our crop ready for the market in the earl\' part 

 of the season, we are so nearly done when the blight strikes us 

 that it does not do us any damage. That brings out the point 

 that I was talking of a while ago. You want to get ^•our mel- 

 ons in as early as you can and get them on the market. 



A Member : Are any of these seeds furnished by vour 

 Congressmen at Washington ? 



Mr. Hi'LSART : Well, that is a good one. My friend, let 

 me tell you something. Just so long as the farmer will follow 

 political friends and let somebody else do his thinking for him, 



