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QUALITY, 
PURITY 
is planted with the seed from a single cantaloupe. Thus from a single melon, 
selected in 1936 for some particular characteristics, there were grown 25 hills in 
1937. The melons from these 25 hills are carefully checked with each other for 
uniformity of the characteristics desired and are checked against the record of 
the parent of the previous year. Each season we save hundreds of individual 
cantaloupes. These must give promise of producing something better than we 
have had before. Each one is cut separately and the seed sacked by itself and 
stored with an accompanying description. 
Out of the hundreds of individuals saved each season there may be but a half 
dozen that will measure up to the high standard we set the following year. The 
remainder, while they may be much better than the regular stock, will no longer 
be used as plat work possibilities. 
These are some of our trial plots. Cornered by each stake is a 
separate plat of cantaloupes. 
By this method we are continually at work improving our stock and develop¬ 
ing new strains. The results of this trial plat work are passed on to you in a 
higher grade of seed that means more profits to you from your crop. 
REQUIREMENTS IN PRODUCING GOOD SEED. 
Anyone can grow seed. But it takes care, experience, time and proper equip¬ 
ment to produce GOOD seed. We pride ourselves on being more than seed growers 
—we are seed breeders as well. 
It is no result of mere chance that our seed has been producing uniformly fine 
crops season after season. It might be possible for you to secure from some 
unknown source, cantaloupe seed that would give you good results in some particular 
season. But should you continue to buy your seed supplies from such a source year 
after year, you will find that they lack the uniform high quality that you need. 
You will find that some year the poor seed supplied will, in the end, cost you more 
than good seed would have cost for a lifetime of planting. 
Our methods assure you that you need never take this chance of getting poor 
quality seed. 
