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fertilizer has been used, the plants may be allowed to 

 grow as close as a foot in the row. Drop from four 

 to eight seeds where a plant is desired, and the time 

 the vines begin to run they should be thinned out to 

 the desired stand. 



The cultivation must be shallow, but kept up con- 

 stantly and the weeds kept down. 



MARKETING. 



It is necessary to pack this crop in crates. The 

 smaller varieties may be shipped in vegetable crates 

 and the larger ones in hundred pound crates. 



Since the inauguration of rapid transit for vegeta- 

 bles, this crop can be shipped profitably during spring. 



SAVING SEED. 



No difficulty will arise from planting musk melons 

 and watermelons in the same field. There is no danger 

 of hybridizing these two species, but seed should not 

 be saved where different varieties of musk melons 

 have been planted in the same field. 



Save the seed in the same way as directed for cu- 

 cumbers. 



The seed may be kept ten years without losing its 

 vitality, under proper conditions. 



