
46 MELONS — 114 TONS 
The above load of Air laine 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 water- 
melons and cantalouve, 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. 
We have furnished many loads of melons 
to out of the state customers, who demand- 
ed and received loads of our hybrids which 
averaged 50 pounds, 69 pounds and even 75 
pounds to the melon. 
An ordinary acre of just fair melons should 
produce from $200.00 to $300.09 to the acre,—even 
in the melon country, where melons do not ex- 
ceed 2c per pound. We consider 10 tons to the 
acre to be very ordinary, 12 tons to the acre to be 
tair, and 15 tons to the acre to be good, 20 tons 
to the acre is excellent 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. 
Why den’t you try an acre or two cf mel- 
ons? Or maybe let the boy raise them and 
overate a road side stand? Follow our direc- 
tions and raise a surprising and highly prof- 
itable 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 prop- 
erly tend them, or just don’t know how to raise 
them. We can't tend them for vou, but our in- 
struction sheet,—“The Air Line Way” will surely 
tell you how to successfully raise them. 
