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pounds per acre of fertilizer should be made on each side 

 of the, melons, plowing in with cultivation. 



Cultivation should be continued until vines have met 

 in rows, and the vines should never be moved or turned 

 in any case. 



Shipping. 



When the first melons are ready to ship, car should be 

 provided and the floor covered with sawdust to a depth of 

 six inches before melons are loaded, if sawdust can not be 

 had, pine straw is a good substitute, using it to a depth of 

 about twelve inches, and on each side of the car, as the 

 melons are loaded. About 1,200 melons averaging twenty 

 pound's is a car, and they should never be loaded much 

 above a minimum car if the smaller melons are shipped. 

 They should be shipped to themselves as grading is fully 

 important in handling melons as it is with other crops. 



