“Ordinary” Seed 

In the spring of 1944, we purchased 3 packets of 
“ordinary” watermelon seed, put up by a very promi- 
nent seed distributor,—one each of Tom Watson, 
Kleckley Sweet, and Triumph (or Florida Giant, or 
Black Diamond,—but known locally as Triumph), 
and we planted one hill from each package. Side by 
side, we planted 3 hills of our own Air Line Hybrid 
seed. They were planted in our garden, away from 
other melons and they were tended identically. On 
the same day in September, we gathered all of the 
melons on the 6 vines, weighed them, and took this 
picture. There were a few small ones on the vines, 
but inasmuch as we do not consider a melon under 25 
pounds to be marketable, these were not considered. 
No remarkable melons were produced,—but THE 
DIFFERENCE IS MOST REMARKABLE. Just take. 
these results and multiply by the number of hills to 
the acre, and the answer will certainly astonish you. 
Three hills of AIR LINE HYBRID melons out-pro- 
duced the “ordinary” hills, by 172 pounds. At 2c per 
pound, that is a difference of $3.44. Now multiply this 
result by say 600 hills to the acre. P 
Unfair? Probably so. Test plots generally are. Our 
melons have never averaged 193 pounds to the hill, 
and doubtless never will,—on a larger acreage. How- 
ever, we have had hills that produced far more than 
193 pounds of melons. 
WE HAVE SHOWN THE RESULTS OF THIS 
LITTLE GARDEN TEST PLOT FOR JUST ONE 
REASON,—IF YOU ARE GOING TO PLANT A 
SMALL GARDEN PATCH OR A LARGE ACREAGE, 
—WHY NOT PLANT THE SEED THAT “BRINGS 
HOME THE BACON?” HYBRID SEED DOES JUST 
THAT. 
