xtra Fancy Melons 

; AT 15-COMPLETE PACKETS FOR $10.00. YOU 
ARE PAYING APPROXIMATELY . $6.00 PER 
POUND, AND GETTING APPROXIMATELY 
3200 CANTALOUPE SEED ABSOLUTELY FREE. 
) _ How to figure seed for planting 
Figuring 650 watermelon hills to the acre: 
-Planting 4 seeds to the hill: 
Id 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 water- 
melons. 
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 ft—about 
three-fourths of an acre. 
Thus for $10.00, vou can plant,—theoretically ,— 
about 3 and %4 acres of watermelons and canta- 
loupes, 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 
hilis as fail to show un, for one reason or other. 
) NOW LOOK BACK AT OUR TEST PLOT FIG- 
URES. DO A LITTLE FIGURING FOR YOUR- 
SELF. FIGURE HOW MANY EXTRA TONS OF 
MELONS, ~ ba bBRIDS SEED... WILL, PRODUCE 
OVER “ORDINARY” SEED. FIGURE THE. LIT- 
: TLE 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 per- 
haps the largest melon seed distributor in 
the United States, lists their better ‘ordin- 
ary” watermelon seed at $3.09 per pound for 
“stock seed’ (85c per oz.), and $6.90 per 
pound for machine threshed “No. 1’ seed— 
(50c per oz.) THINK IT OVER WHEN ORD- 
ERING YOUR MELON SEED THIS YEAR. 
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