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 experi- 
mentally exchanged seeds with South American 
and European countries. 
We de not irrigate, we do not fertilize our 
ground, We pinch off no blossoms nor extra mel- 
ons 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 farm is North al- 
most to 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, Nebras- 
ka and South Dakota. Our melons have won first 
prizes in county and state fairs. We are not ama- 
teurs. 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 
production of seed is not profitable. It is not poss- 
ible of course, to cut up 50 to 100 pound water- 
melons, 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 happy to have our old customers. 
A FEW HYBRID SEED FACTS 
. 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 Op- 
posite ends of the same melon. 
5. Whatever you do, do not try to Save your Own 
seed from these melons, more than one year. 
Play safe and buy new seed each year. The ex- 
pense is trifling. 
6. Order now. We have never yet produced 
enough hybrid melon seed. 
EVERY OPERATION IN THE PRODUCTION 
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