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EXPERIMENTS WITH MUSKMELONS 



Whether this extra early yield will pay for the extra kbor 

 can only be determined by the conditions and facilities of the 



grower. 



Generally speaking, it is doubtless a questionable undertak- 

 ing, but in a few instances might be profitable. 



The experiment in point of earliness shows bat compar- 

 atively few fruits and but ten days in the extreme, and but a 

 few days in the majority of cases, in favor of the transplanted 

 plants. 



EXPERIMENT NO. IV 



PIXCHED VS. UXPIXCHED VIXES 



This experiment was planned and-' conducted to determine 

 the value of pinching or heading-in the melon vines, as com- 

 pared with allowing them to take their natural growth. The 

 following table represents the plot used for this experiment. 

 In row "B" the vines were nipped when they were three feet 

 long and then the laterals were again nipped or pinched in > 

 not allowing over one or two fruit to set on each. 



In row "D" the main vine was pinched but no laterals; the 

 others were allowed to take their natural growth. 



TABLE III. 



Results from Pinched and Unpinohed Vines. 



VARIETY 



^A. 



z 



'3 



B. 



c 



'3 



C. 



P. 



E. 



o 



55 



'3 



'3 



/. 



'3 — 



£ a 



Rose Gem 



Rose Gem 



Rose Gem 



Netted Gem 



Netted Gem 



Netted Gem 



True Jenny Lind 



True Jenny Lind 



True Jenny Lind — 

 Netted Gem 



Average per hill 



12 

 11 

 21 

 20 

 17 

 19 

 12 

 20 

 8 

 IS 



15.8 



12.9 

 13.4 



22. S 

 18.2 

 28.8 

 21.8 

 18.8 

 22.7 

 8.0 

 13.6 



19 

 15 



17 



# 



13 



22 



* 



14 

 14 

 11 



19 5 



17.5 



1G.8 



* 



166 



20 3 



* 



17 2 

 17.6 

 11 3 



18.1 15.6 17.1 



11 

 9 

 14 

 10 

 22 

 10 

 11 

 12 

 12 

 15 



12.6 



1 



•> 

 3 

 4 

 5 

 (5 

 7 

 s 

 9 

 10 



* Absent. 



