Cantaloupes. ii 
A third acre was sprayed July 28 for the first time, 
which was done for the purpose of noting the effect of late 
spraying. The blight was showing considerably in the 
center of the hills, but not spreading to any appreciable 
extent. After this spraying there was a peculiar appearance 
of the edges of the leaf (which to some might be alarming). 
Much of the portion assuming this appearance was brown 
at the time of spraying, but the centers remained green and 
the leaves retained their vitality, which was not the case 
with those unsprayed. This appearance of the edge of the 
leaf did not occur with those sprayed early, and its appear¬ 
ance is something for which I am not able to account. The 
remaining acre was not sprayed, for the purpose of a check 
upon the work. 
The most noticeable feature to the parties picking the 
product from the held was the rapidity with which the 
unsprayed portion ripened its fruit. Soon after harvesting 
commenced the yield on this acre was twice as great as on 
an equal area of sprayed vines, and the quality was not so 
good. The melons were ripe and picked on this acre fully 
two weeks before they were on the other three acres. 
Those having the held in charge were in doubt, when the 
work commenced, whether there was any efficacy in the 
spray, but the ripening of the fruit dispelled any such doubt. 
There was an appreciable difference in the appearance of 
the vines, and this was discernable for some distance. 
People who saw the vines early in September would remark 
as to their health and vigor, and they continued to bear 
until frost. 
Owing to the continued dry weather, the two early 
sprayings seemed to be all that was required, and were 
preferable to the one spraying done later. Had moist con¬ 
ditions arisen, it is probable that one or two more sprayings 
would have been necessary. However, the results from the 
late work gave evidence that good results can be secured 
from the late applications. 
What has been said is further substantiated by results 
in other fields near by, in which the vines and crop were, at 
one time, more promising, but (due to the diseased condi¬ 
tions) ripened their fruit too rapidly, unevenly, and the 
quality was undesirable. On these fields the spread of the 
disease from day to day was apparent during the latter part 
of August and the first week of September. 
An ordinary field of cantaloupes should not yield, dur¬ 
ing the height of the season, more than twelve crates of 
