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for a few moments each morning and spend the rest of the day on the 
loading platform, inspecting melons as they are brought in by the 
ranchers. This system seems to work satisfactorily under Arizona 
conditions. 
Percentage of Ponies. 
Because of proper selection of varieties and favorable climatic con- 
ditions in 1915, the percentage of ironies was very small as compared 
with the Imperial Valley. It is very doubtful if quality could be 
improved in this respect, as the losses from excessive production 
of pony melons were very small. The fact that the per acre yield 
is somewhat less than in the Imperial Valley may be an influencing 
factor in the production of a smaller percentage of ponies. Records 
of shipments taken from July 6 to 9 are as follows : 
Table 10. — Percentages of -ponies and other melons shipped from the Salt River Valley. 
Shipper. 
Green meats. 
Pink meats. 
Ponies. 
Jum- 
bos. 
Stand- 
ards. 
Two- 
thirds 
jumbos. 
Jumbo 
flats. 
Pony 
flats. 
Jumbo 
flats. 
Stand- 
ard 
flat 12's. 
Stand- 
ard 
flat 15's. 
A 
Per ct. 
7.0 
16.4 
Per ct. 
30.3 
Per ct. 
38.5 
83.6 
41.7 
Per ct. 
11.0 
Per ct. 
14.2 
Per ct. 
13.3 
6.7 
11.9 
Per ct. 
15.1 
Per ct. 
52.0 
50.0 
88.1 
Per ct. 
19.6 
4.3 
B 
C 
50.6 
DISTRIBUTION. 
Returns to Growers. 
Distribution problems in all western melon sections are practically 
the same. Results in Arizona in 1915 were especially favorable, 
because of the almost total failure of the Indiana crop and the gener- 
ally poor quality of melons from eastern sections which usually com- 
pete with Arizona. Pools of season averages, published by two 
distributors, show, in Table 11, the returns to Salt River Valley 
growers in i91o. 
Table 11. — Average returns per crate to two Salt River Valley growers during 1915 
season. 
Green meats. 
Pink moats. 
Shipper A. Shipper B.i 
Shipper A. 
Shipper B. 1 
Two-1 hirds jumbos 
$0.80 80.667 
1.107 1.00 
.365 ! 
, Standard flat 12's 
80. 364 
80. 385 
.30 
.195 
.41 

Standard 
Standard flat 15's 
Jumbo flats 
Ponv flats 
Ponies 
. 683 j .58 
Jumbo flats 
Ponies (45's and 54's) 
1 Approximate. 
