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COMPOSITION AND MATURITY OF CANTALOUPES. 19 
TaBLE 10.—Separation of half-slip melons into groups by external appearance—Contd. 
BRAWLEY, TURLOCK, AND TULARE COUNTY, 1921. 






Satisfactory appearance. Unsatisfactory appearance. 
Lot No. Internal quality found— Internal quality found— 
Number Number 
‘ined. Questi Not | ined. Question-| Not 
ined. uestion- oO ined. uestion- ty) 
Good. |*able. | edible. | Good. | able. | edible. 
Examined and ana- 
lyzed at once: 
AGO (nee ee 16 10 0 6 9 tt 0 8 
478-822 eS 14 7 0 i 9 if! 4 4 
ASG-892 Sas En 16 9 0 ¥ 10 | 0 9 1 
499-9622 S225 Re 2 15 7 5 3 10 | 0 9 1 
499-504.) = ot 23 29 16 0 13 10 | 4 3 3 
HOS tO ie ae eee 23 11 7 5 22 11 5 6 
Hi LS Stes sae 17 10 0 7 28 5 9 14 
ty A Pee sae Se 16 16 0 0 22 9 0 13 
Pay 41 eet eee ee a 20 20 0 0 24 10 7 7 
1) Ee NS ae A 25 25 0 0 21 8 6 7 
3G DSS a ae oe Sea 25 23 0 2 21 ali 7 3 
Ls St eae ee 22 22 0 0 23 10 13 0 
BAQHAR es sats: Soe 2 25 | 21 0 4 20 9 11 0 
BA4=46" 2 Foe ee 23 23 0 0 11 0 fi 4 
Fos ie Vr a ae = eee 10 5 0|- 5 35 3 16 16 
LA Cori eee ee 15 0 10 OS. 2 SE 32 8 eee ee eee 
ha9-G25 5: ee 8 4 4 0 | 14 1 0 13 
564-662 2225. 2S 22 12 0 10 7 0 0 7 
DOI-s0= = = SESS 22 10 0 12 23 4 0 19 
Hil —1Gse = 21 18 2 1 12 3 5 4 
Dio aa ee 4] 19 14 8 39 10 9 20 
BSI 00 at Sa es 24 13 8 3 23 2 5 16 
EA Se ae 28 17 11 0 17 0 2 15 
595-oulie ae a eS 27 21 5 1 ae 7 6 9 
(C0 he ee 30 27 3 Ojbus-t..-|ea2. en ee ee 
606—l == 20 14 | 5 1 25 17 0 8 
SG ee es ore 45 41 3 1 43 18 1 24 
i re 18 17 | 0 1 27 18 | 5 4 
| Ppad ay Lae eee aa 32 20 10 2 13 a 5 a 
EST 8 oy a ee eee 38 31 4 3 34 9 10 15 
G12 4 fee oe 33 30 3 0 27 0 16 11 
65156222 eS 31 26 4 1 22 11 7 “ 
Beg ae 30 21 7 Qe Se |e ee | See eee 
GG2-G4 2455 se 3 37 20 0 17 5 0 0 5 
GO5-bies = Se eee 40 8 16 16 4 0 1 3 
BGS —10 = oe 39 16 9 14 6 0 1 5 
Gy ee eee 40 29 slit 0 5 1 2 2 
Gian ees ll 11 0 0 12 4 3 5 
MRotal-e=——= 948 650 141 157 655 191 184 280 
Pencent=——|S2-==2-=—- 68.6 14.9 16257 29.2 28.1 42.7 



Much can be done by the shipper to eliminate immature melons, 
by impressing upon pickers the advisability of picking only melons 
with fully developed netting, leaving those with doubtful netting for 
a later picking, and by having at the packing bench inspectors whose 
duty it is to examine the melons as they are dumped from the field 
boxes into the packing bins, eliminating those having an external 
appearance which plainly indicates immaturity and inferior quality. 
EFFECT OF STORAGE ON COMPOSITION, 
An attempt was made to estimate the extent of some of the changes 
in composition which take place during storage. Storage conditions 
comparable with those to which the melons are subjected in com- 
mercial operations were sought. In Brawley and Turlock, in 1916 
and 1917, melons were placed in iced refrigerator cars. At the same 
time a sample of six melons of the same class was taken and the 
analysis of this lot was used as a check upon the stored melons. At 
