The Result of 25 Year’s Effort 
Hybrid Melons Not an Experiment 
For 25 years we grew melons commercially,—20 to 
60 acres every year. For 20 years we have worked 
on our hybrids. We have studied the melons and 
melon methods, right in the fields of the best melon 
growing states. We have experimentally exchanged 
seeds with South American and European countries. 
We do not irrigate, we do not fertilize our ground. 
We pinch off no blosoms nor extra melons in order 
to grow “show” melons. We “feed” no vines to make 
them grow large melons. Our vines must produce 
“the hard way,” in order to meet our specifications. 
Our farmeis “Norihy almost 10) the «Nebraska line. — 
generally considered clear out of the melon country, 
yet we are certain that we produce the largest average 
sized melon in the entire United States,—excepting 
of course the low grade Jumbo types, grown for 
size only. 
For years we sent melons from coast to coast, and 
we sold many carloads and truck loads into the states 
of Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Nebraska and South 
Dakota. Our melons have won first prizes in county 
and state fairs. We are not amateurs. We believe we 
know the melon game. We believe we know melon 
seed. WE GROW AND MARKET OUR OWN SEED 
EXCLUSIVELY. 
At present prices of labor, printing, etc., the pro- 
duction of seed is not profitable. It is not possible 
of course, to cut up 50 to 100 pound watermelons, 
worth at the very least, two cents a pound (and 
remember that it takes about 5 of these large melons 
to make a pound of seed)—sell the seed for $6.00 per 
pound, and expect to make a fancy profit. But we 
have customers who have used our seed for years, and 
we don’t want to quit now,—just because of the lack of 
profit. We realize that times may change,—and then 
we will be very happy to have our old customers. 
A FEW HYBRID SEED FACTS 
1. Planting one colored seed may produce the op- 
posite colored seed. 
2. Seed from a long melon may produce a round 
melon or vice-versa. 
3. Striped melons may produce green or white melons 
and vice-versa. 
4. Different colored seeds sometimes occur in opposite 
ends of the same melon. 
5. Whatever you do, do not try to save your own 
seed {rom these melons, more than one year. Play 
safe and buy new seed each year. The expense is 
trifling. 
6. Order now. We have never yet produced enough 
hybrid melon seed. 
EVERY OPERATION IN THE PRODUCTION OF 
AIR LINE SEED IS BY HAND. 
