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QUALITY, 
PURITY 
The New" SEED 
A/ew Attain ofi -t/ale i IZe5t 
AST YEAR we introduced the new Seed Breeders cantaloupe. We offered it to the 
*-* cantaloupe growers of the country as an improved Hales Best strain, saying that we 
believed that it was the finest yet developed. 
We felt justified in making this claim as the result of the reports made to us by 
twelve state and college experimental stations located in the most important cantaloupe 
producing states of the country. These experimental stations were practically unanimous 
in reporting that their tests demonstrated that the Seed Breeders cantaloupe was the finest 
of the Hales Best strains. The only exception, among those reporting on the H. B., 
was one station which stated that in their district they found the Nine Thirty-Six 
slightly earlier. 
REPORTS OF EXPERIMENTAL STATIONS 
To give you a more definite idea of the type of reports sent us from the experi¬ 
mental stations, we quote a portion of some of those reports: 
“Of the Hale’s Best types the new Seed Breeders selection appeared superior to any 
of the others including the Nine Thirty-Six. Under our system of scoring the new selec¬ 
tion was given a slightly higher quality rating than the Nine Thirty-Six which in turn 
was rated higher than H. B. 3 6, H. B. 112, or the original Hales Best types. . . Both 
the Nine Thirty-Six and the new Hales Best selection were especially uniform as to 
size and shape of fruits and the production was very satisfactory.’’ 
“Your New Seed Breeders was the most uniform of the Hales Best strains that we 
have had here, both in size and in quality.’’ 
Another report states the new Seed Breeders “was the best sample that we had in 
trial, very uniform and very prolific. In general the fruit was round 100% netted, the 
average diameter was 4.9 inches, the average thickness of flesh 1.3 inches and the average 
weight 2.4 pounds.’’ 
IMPORTANCE OF THESE REPORTS 
You will note that these reports stress the high quality of the new Seed Breeders, 
its uniformity, and its prolificness. These are points which every grower bears in mind 
when he buys his seed. His cantaloupes must be of high quality or he cannot sell them; 
The new Seed Breeders Cantaloupes—the newest and finest 
of the early Hale’s Best strains. 
