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Box 75 
Painesville, Ohio 
Culture of Muskmelons 
I intend planting an acre of Emerald Gem 
muskmelons in rich, sandy soil, in rows 
8 ft, apart and hills 3 ft. Would like to 
know proper care and cultivation. How 
many should be thinned out, also what in¬ 
sects bother them, and what remedies are 
used ? p. s. M. 
New York. 
Muskmelons belong to that group of 
plants almost semi-tropical in their nat¬ 
ural habits, and in our climate they thrive 
best in our warmest weather. They are 
grown successfully throughout a wide 
range in the North, commercial planta¬ 
tions being situated near Toronto, Can., 
and in practically every State. A well- 
drained soil is recommended, sandy loams 
giving best results. We have seen fine 
crops on the muck lands, and in this sec¬ 
tion crops are sometimes grown with a 
fair amount of success on the medium 
loams. Stable manure is the best fer¬ 
tilizer for melons, both for its nitrogen 
content and for its value as humus. When 
manure is not available a green manure 
crop is generally plowed under and com¬ 
mercial fertilizer broadcast over the 
ground and harrowed in just before plant¬ 
ing. Tankage and nitrate of soda have 
been used with much success to furnish 
the nitrogen, acid phosphate for phos¬ 
phorus and muriate of potash to furnish 
the potassium needed. As the melons re¬ 
quire 10 to 14 weeks from seed to fruit, it 
is advisable at times to start the plants in 
boxes in frames and transplant to the 
open ground when four or five leaves have 
formed. Commercially this would not 
pay, and growers try to get the seed in 
the soil in the ridges as soon as the dan¬ 
ger from frost is past. Cultivation should 
commence as soon as the plants are well 
established, and this operation keeps the 
soil in the loose, porous condition in 
which melons thrive. The plants should 
be thinned to from one to three in a hill. 
Many growers claim more and better 
fruit from the one plant in a hill than 
from any other number. Some others say 
two or three give best results. With very 
rich soil and ideal melon weather the 
lesser number will yield fully as well as 
with the greater number of plants. When 
cultivating care should be taken not to 
break the vines, and they should be re¬ 
turned to natural positions as soon as pos¬ 
sible when turned over by the cultivator. 
When the melons are to be sold on the 
local market they should be allowed to 
fully ripen on the vines. If the melon sep¬ 
arates readily from the stem it is consid¬ 
ered ripe. When the melons are to be 
shipped they should be picked somewhat 
sooner than is advisable for local trade. 
It requires experience and practice to tell 
just when each melon is ready to pick. 
The vines should be gone over every day, 
or two days at the most. 
The common insect pests attacking the 
muskmelons are cutworms, the striped cu¬ 
cumber beetle and the melon aphis. A 
mixture of Paris green and bran distrib¬ 
uted over the ground before the plants 
appear will discourage the cutworms. To 
protect from the striped cucumber beetle. 
Bordeaux mixture or arsenate of lead. 3 
lbs. to 50 gals, of water, is used. In small 
plantations screening the plants with wire 
or cheesecloth is practiced. The melon 
aphis usually attacks isolated plants, and 
these should he pulled up and destroyed. 
A few growers fumigate such plants with 
tobacco stems placed under a portable 
frame covered with oilcloth. Carbon bi¬ 
sulphide has also been used successfully 
for fumigating. Melon rust may be both¬ 
ersome at times, appearing late in the 
season, at the time the first melons begin 
to ripen. It can be controlled to a cer¬ 
tain extent by the use of Bordeaux mix¬ 
ture. Rust resistant varieties of melons 
have been bred and should be used wher¬ 
ever rust is prevalent. t. it. t. 
Wheat, $1.75: oats. 75c; corn, single 
bu., 65 to 75c; corn, shelled, 56 lbs.. $1.30. 
Timothy hay. $30; clover hay, $25. Po¬ 
tatoes, bu., $1.50; apples, bu.. $1. Butter, 
60c per lb. Eggs. 65c doz. Live poultry, 
18 to 22e. Pork, dressed, 16e per lb.; 
beef, dressed, 16 to 18c; veal, dressed, 18c. 
This is all dressed and delivered by the 
farmers. No stock is bought and shipped 
out from our station, and feed prices be¬ 
ing high makes it almost impossible to 
produce meat at these prices. This and 
the price received for wheat are two of 
the things the farmers have reason to 
complain of. yet the farmers are in a fair¬ 
ly good condition, except those who have 
to hire help, and the aged who cannot af¬ 
ford to hire at the high wages osked. The 
yield of wheat was only from 9 to 18 bu. 
per acre; oats, light; hay and corn, good. 
Buckwheat a light crop. Potatoes not 
very good ; apples and pears a big crop. 
About the same acreage of wheat seeded 
as a year ago, and looking pretty good fo” 
such an open Winter as we have had so 
far. The farmers here are not organized, 
and I do not hear of any move to do so. 
We are all looking forward to better 
times in the near future. You know they 
take-what comes with little complaint and 
keep working away on the job. If Con¬ 
gress will pass some of the hills which 
will he presented to it- and at least cut 
out dealing in futures and those specu¬ 
lators who never saw a plow or a binder, 
it would be a good thing for everybody. 
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Seeds that are grown in the north produce earlier crops and better 
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Harris Seeds 
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