Through this catalog we hope to meet new 
friends and renew old friendships. We have 
never yet permitted our business to become 
so impersonal that we treat our mail as so 
many "inquiries'’ or ‘orders.’ Instead, each 
letter that reaches our desk is a letter from a 
friend and is handled accordingly. When our 
friends ask for information, we try to write 
to them fully and carefully, giving them as ac- 
curate information as possible, for their suc- 
cess means much to us. We began our busi- 
ness in 1909 and built it upon the solid found- 
ation of personal attention to the seed pro- 
duction and seed sales. The Rocky Ford 
Cantaloupe Seed Breeders Association is still 
a family concern, and each of the Ryans has 
a particular phase of the work under his per- 
sonal supervision. James B. Ryan, one of the 
founders of the business, is still active and is 
the "Senator Jim Ryan, the Melon Doctor" 
described in the Saturday Evening Post arti- 
cle last year. Ted Ryan is general field fore- 
man. Phil Ryan is in charge of the field labor- 
ers and personally supervises the actual har- 
vest. Frederick Ryan was in the Army during the war but has returned to take his part 
in the business. Millard E. Ryan is in charge of the sales and the office. Each of us 
is interested in seeing that you get the best seed possible for us to grow, for that 
means future success to us. Each of us is proud of Ryan's cantaloupe seed and the 
reputation it has attained in the past 39 years, and personally supervise the work 
to see that that reputation is maintained. 

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A full “slip'’’. At this stage of ripeness the A ''Four-Fifty'' cantaloupe. You may say that we 
melon is ready for the table. Vine ripened melons selected the best type of cantaloupe we could 
help make good quality. Careful selection of find to take this photograph, and | guess we 
seed will give you varieties that can be vine did, but it is only one of thousands just as good, 
ripened and still reach the market in good as we can show you in the seed piles in our 
condition. fields. 
