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Early Red Heart 
Earliest and Sweetest 
Minnesota Sweet 
Fordhook Early 
Sugar Swika 
CULTURE: The hills should be 8 ft. apart 
each way. Plant the seed about one inch 
deep as soon as the weather is warm. An 
ounce will plant about 30 hills; 3 or 4 pounds 
of seed to the acre. Allow two or three 
plants to remain in each hill. Ready to use 
in 70 to 100 days. 
WATERMELONS 
ON EVERY FARM 
IN 1938 
Good Big Ones 
Red Seeded Hutchinson 
Gurney’s Mastodon Radio 
Don and Chan Gurney eating a 40-lb. Mastodon Radio Watermelon 
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GURNEY'S MASTODON RADIO WATERMELON 
In a three 
thousand mile 
trip in Septem¬ 
ber, I saw only 
one first-class 
Watermelon 
u n i v e r s al 1 y 
grown and sold 
at fancy prices 
—the Red Seed¬ 
ed Hutchinson. 
-D.B. Gurney 
Happy Jack and George German, popular WNAX 
entertainers—entertaining themselves with a 50-lb. 
Red Seeded Hutchinson 
RED SEEDED HUTCHINSON- ONE OF THE BEST ^ 
Watermelons are liked by everyone, and the kids especially like to go out 
and crawl into someone’s corn field hoping that they will find a watermelon 
patch. Gurney’s Mastodon Radio Watermelon will produce more melons 
than any other variety; it also produces the largest melons; the flavor can¬ 
not be beat, and you will never find the hard core as in so many of the 
melons. It is not unusual to produce melons of this variety weighing ninety 
pounds. They have been known to exceed one hundred pounds. Its bright 
red flesh is of delicious flavor and the quality that calls for more. 
The glossy dark green skin and tough rind makes this one of the most 
attractive shipping melons on the market. 
Pkt., 7c; oz., 12c; !4 lb., 25c; 1 lb., 70c; 5 lbs., $3.00; Postpaid. 
This is the best of the new watermelons developed in the last few years. 
Large, nearly round, light green with dark green stripes. A load of them 
make a very attractive appearance. 
I like watermelon and eat lots of them and this year Red Seeded Hutch¬ 
inson is at the head of the list for size, appearance and quality. They have 
been toward the end of the summer about the only melons on the market in 
the Middle West, and certainly the quality is hard to improve on. 
They are fairly early, coming on the market after the early varieties are 
gone, and are so large and so good that they find a market at very attrac¬ 
tive prices. 
Pkt., 6c; oz., 10c; J4 lb., 25c; 1 lb!, 70c; 5 lbs., $3.00, Postpaid. 
• WINTER WATERMELON 
Yankton, S. D., has the best equipped State 
Hospital, takes better care of its patients, and 
cures more than any other in the United States. 
It is equipped with theatre, dance hall, ball 
ground, tennis court. You wonder what this has 
to do with winter watermelons. I am just com¬ 
ing to that. I have been on the grounds of the 
Hospital for the Insane at Yankton a number of 
times, and it was not unusual to see hundreds of 
the patients on these beautiful grounds, each 
patient, if they wanted it, eating watermelon. 
Their garden covers about thirty acres, and they 
had thousands of the winter watermelons. It is 
not only good at time of maturity but can be har¬ 
vested and kept well up to Christmas time. It is 
medium-sized, almost clear white rind, the 
brightest red flesh and small black seeds, very 
firm and very tough rind. 
These should be harvested when ripe, not 
overripe, placed in a cool dry cellar; or place 
them in the open in straw, seeing that the mel¬ 
ons do not touch each other and covering all of 
them with sufficient straw to keep from freezing. 
Take them out as wanted. 
Pkt., 5c; oz., 12c; 'A lb., 30c; 1 lb., 85c; 5 
lbs., $3.50 Postpaid. 
-♦ 
A summer girl with a Winter Watermelon 
® EARLY RED HEART 
SIX REASONS WHY THIS HIGH QUAL¬ 
ITY WATERMELON DESERVES A PLACE 
IN EVERY GARDEiN IN THE NORTHWEST. 
1. EARLINESS—As early as any melon grown. 
In ordinary seasons melons will ripen clear 
to the Canadian line. 
2. QUALITY —The sweetest melon we have 
ever tasted; firm flesh, big hearted. A strictly 
high quality melon. 
3. SIZE—Weight from 8 to 12 pounds—just 
right for the average family. 
4. APPEARANCE—Perfectly round, medium 
green with darker stripes. A load of these 
melons make a very attractive sight. When 
cut the bright scarlet flesh and small jet 
black seeds make a picture to stir the 
heart of a melon eater. 
5. YIELD—While the melons are not large, 
they set so many melons to the vine that 
Early Red Heart will outyield most of the 
larger melons. 
6. PROFIT— The early melons bring high 
prices. Red Heart is early. High quality 
melons bring repeat orders. Red Heart is a 
delicious melon. An acre of Early Red Heart 
should produce from 3000 to 5000 salable 
melons. Pkt., 7c; oz., 12c; 'A lb., 30c; 
1 lb., 85c; 5 lbs., $3.50 Postpaid. 
Make the farm attractive to the children — Plant Watermelons 
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