- ALL OUR CANTALOUPE SEED IS HAND CUT 
seed you plant. Hence the characteristics of quality, purity and 
selection in your seed is of the utmost importance. Without them 
you have failed to make the start to which you are entitled. Because 
of the importance of quality, purity and selection, it would be unwise 
for us not to call them to your attention. 
Our long established and jealously guarded reputation for qual- 
ity, purity and selection in our cantaloupe seed is the best assurance 
you can have that your crop will be one that will meet all your 
expectations. 
REQUIREMENTS IN PRODUCING GOOD SEED 
Anyone can grow seed. But it takes care, experience, time and 
proper equipment to produce good seed. We pride ourselves on 
being more than seed growers—we are seed breeders as well. 
It is no result of mere chance that our seed has been producing 
uniformly fine crops season after season. We have made it an in- 
variable rule never to sell seed that we do not grow and harvest our- 
selves. We give personal supervision to all the stages of harvesting 
our seed crops. Every care is taken to see that only the finest melons 
are saved for seed, and after the seed is saved, every precaution is 
exercised to be certain that there is no mixing. Such a policy means 
much to you. It means that when you buy our seed you can be cer- 
tain that it will reproduce exactly as we describe it. It means that you 
know, when you plant the seed, the kind of a crop you will get. It 
means that chance is eliminated in your purchase of seed. 
ALL OUR SEED IS HAND-CUT 
The most careful methods are used in our harvesting. All the 
seed is hand-selected and hand-cut. Each melon is cut separately, 
and by this method the poorer melons are discarded and are not 
saved for seed. You receive seed that comes from only the very 
finest specimens. All the seed is washed by hand in open tanks, and 
by this method we can exercise greater care in seeing that there is 
no mixture of varieties. 
Time has proven the value of our methods. Season after season, 
our seed has maintained our standard of quality, purity and selection. 
Season after season, our seed will give you better results. 
WE EXTEND OUR BEST WISHES 
It is our sincere hope that this catalog will be of some assistance 
to you in deciding upon the source of your cantaloupe seed for your 
1951 planting. We hope that we may receive your order, and if we 
do, we make this promise to you: We will not sell you seed that we 
would not plant ourselves. 
We extend to you our best wishes for your success in 1951. 
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EST QUALITY, PURITY, AND SELECTION 
ROCKY FORD 
CANTALOUPE 
