
46 MELONS — 112 TONS 
The above load of Air Line Hybrid was our first 
“show” load of hybrid melons, taken nearly 20 years 
ago. This load, averaging only 65 pounds to the melon, 
caused such wide spread comment, and such demand 
for seed, that we decided to go into the seed business. 
Since that time, we have so improved our seed, that 
a 65 pound average show load, would seem rather 
small. 
Many families spend more money for watermelons 
and cantaloupe, than the value of their entire garden, 
including their potatoes, yet they plant no melons. 
We have seed customers who write us that they 
sell as much as $100.00 worth of melons from a single 
dollar’s worth of our seed, after using all they want, 
and giving many away. 
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We have furnished many loads of melons to out of 
the state customers, who demanded and received loads 
of our hybrids which averaged 50 pounds, 60 pounds 
and even 75 pounds to the melon. 
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An ordinary acre of just fair melons should pro- 
duce from $200.00 to $300.00 to the acre,—even in the 
melon country, where melons do not exceed 2c per 
pound. We consider 10 tons to the acre to be very 
ordinary, 12 tons to the acre to be fair, and 15 tons 
to the acre to be good. 20 tons to the acre is excel- 
lent, and is raised in the best years, by best growers. 
If you can raise 15 tons to the acre, and can market 
them at 2c per pound, the crop will pay you $600.00 
per acre. 
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Why don’t you try an acre or two of melons? Or 
maybe let the boy raise them and operate a road side 
stand? Follow our directions and raise a surprising and 
highly profitable crop, almost anywhere that good corn 
will grow. It’s FUN, it’s PRACTICAL, it’s PROFITABLE. 

Most people who try to grow melons and fail, do so 
because they are too busy or too lazy to properly 
tend them, or just don’t know how to raise them. 
We can’t tend them for you, but our instruction sheet,— 
“The Air Line Way” will surely tell you how to suc- 
cessfully raise them. — 
