| Fancy Melons 

AT 15 COMPLETE PACKETS FOR $10.00. YOU 
ARE PAYING APPROXIMATELY $6.00 PER POUND, 
AND GETTING APPROXIMATELY 3200 CANTA- 
LOUPE SEED ABSOLUTELY FREE. 
How to figure seed for planting 
Figuring 650 watermelon hills to the acre: 
Planting 4 seeds to the hill: 
15 Air Line Seed Packets contain approximately 
7800 watermelon seed. Thus at 4 seeds to the hill, the 
15 packets will plant 3 full acres of watermelons. 
The 3200 cantaloupe seeds which 15 Air Line packets 
contain, will plant—figuring 4 seeds to the hill, and 
planting the hills 7 ft. by 9 {t—about three-fourths 
of an acre. 
Thus for $10.00, you can plant,—theoretically,—about 
3 and 34 acres of watermelons and cantaloupes, at a 
cost of about $2.75 per acre. However, it is much safer 
to figure a bit more liberally in case more than 4 seeds 
are dropped per hill, and in order to have sufficient 
seed to replant such hills as fail to show up, for one 
reason or other. 
NOW LOOK BACK AT OUR TEST PLOT FIGURES. 
DO A LITTLE FIGURING FOR YOURSELF. FIGURE 
HOW MANY EXTRA TONS OF MELONS, HYBRID 
SEED WILL PRODUCE OVER “ORDINARY” SEED. 
FIGURE THE LITTLE DIFFERENCE IN COST OF 
OUR HYBRID SEED AND “ORDINARY” SEED. WE 
BELIEVE YOU WILL SEE AT ONCE, THE GOOD 
SENSE IN PLANTING HYBRID. 
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The 1948 seed catalogue put out by perhaps the 
largest melon seed distributor in the United States, 
lists their better “ordinary” watermelon seed at $8.00 
per pound for “stock seed” (85c per oz.), and $6.00 
per pound for machine threshed “No. 1” seed—(50c 
per oz.) THINK IT OVER WHEN ORDERING YOUR 
MELON SEED THIS YEAR. 
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