QUALITY « PURITY « SELECTION 

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Presenting Our New Manual 
ANOTHER SEASON has come and gone with its varied 
fortunes, and every cantaloupe grower has had another 
Opportunity to gain new lessons of experience. Yet, 
after years of careful efforts, he cannot always be assured of success, for there are some elements 
over which he has no control. Before you begin a study of this Manual, we want to use a few 
lines in discussing one of these elements*over which the grower has no control. 
The seed business is done entirely on confidence. The grower’s source of seed must be 
one in which he places full confidence that he will get what he pays for. When you buy seed, 
you are buying two things: first, the seed that you plant in the ground to grow your crops, 
and second, you get a promise from the seedsman that the seed is what you want. This promise 
cannot be fulfilled until harvest after a season of hard work. The promise is of equal impor- 
tance to the seed you buy. 

While the grower can control the element of care given in producing cantaloupes, and 
can regulate the methods of harvesting, that grower has no control over his seed supply except 
that he locates and buys seed from a reliable seed producer. Since one of the most smportant 
factors in growing a good crop is the seed that is used, every farmer must be certain that he 
buys pure seed of high quality. 
Our long experience in developing and producing cantaloupe seed is your assurance that 
seed bought from us will be the finest that it is possible to secure. The reputation and confi- 
dence that we enjoy is your assurance that the promises we make regarding our seed will be 
fulfilled in your harvest. 
Haud-cut Seed 
All our seed is hand-selected and hand-cut to insure quality, purity and selection. -Each separate 
melon is inspected at least twice before it is saved for seed. We grow and harvest all our own 
seed, giving it our close personal supervision at every stage of growing, harvesting, milling 
and shipping. While these methods are more expensive than less careful methods of producing 
seed, they are the only methods that insure the seed you buy will give the best results. 

This is a picture of part of our trial grounds. Each white ey marks the corner of a plat which 
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cantaloupe. 
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