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COMPOSITION AND MATURITY OF CANTALOUPES. 3 
made. Generally six melons were included in a sample, although in 
1920 much of the work consisted in analyzing and making notes on 
individual melons. 
PHILLIPIET ERS 

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Fic. 1.—Average length of long and short axes of 18 cantaloupes grown at Garden Grove in 1917. 
Methods of analysis.—The edible part of the melon was scooped out 
with a spoon and ground in a food the pper, and the juice was strained 
through a coarse cotton cloth. The specific gravity of the juice was 
measured either with a Brix spindle or with a spindle reading directly 

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Fic. 2.—Average length of long and short axes of 29-cantaloupes grown al Altac 
jena in 1919. 



"in specific gravity and corrections were made for temperature. For 
the refractive index of the juice, a Zeiss immersion refractometer was 
used, all readings being made at 20°C. For total sugar and sucrose, 
