The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1858-07-23
NO. 20


There is no lruil tilat enters ~ IA W
Ily into the daily consumption Of our
people rs the melon, and none that
seems to lie so little understood or ap
prcciated in its culture. A fine fla
yorcd water or musk melon should not
be planted within one hundred rods OF
any other melon, or any Of the melon
family. Gouids, sqnashcs or cncum-
bcrs should never be planted in the
same garden or field with melons, for
the volatile nature Of the pollen OF
each will mix, making hybrds Of the
next generation, giving the melon
gourdy, squashy flavor, and softcnins
the shell Of the gourd. The melon
delights in a sandy soil, and to have
them ia their greatest perfection, the
ground should be deeply spaded or
subsoil plowed. The hills should DO
about ten feet apart.
The watermelon vine is very sub
licct to injury from water; heavy ana
continued rains give them the appear
ancc Of having been scalded, hencc
the necessity Of planting on hills IN
stead Of on a level. Holes should DO
excavated and flied in with well rot
II ted manure. with q mound over tho
he manure at least twelve inches higher
il. n the center than on the outside' on
the center OF this mound plant the
aIseed, plant some six or eight and
. when they have four leaves, thin out
to three plants in hill. AS the vines
sri- begin 70 run, branch and bloom, pinch
Ter ont the terminal bud, which will throw
'ia' m the whole vigor OF the vine into the
,sv Young fruit just set; as the fruit ~
Du, crcases in size, take of all but one g
: i, A branch, and allow but one melon g
ripen on one branch vine. An oyer
oek- loaded melon vine viii produce b'l
8 toinierior fruit.
90, The cultiyator should bear in min
! The that the roots Of melons run just Q
head fast. and that the practice Of layin
rel back the vines over the hills is yer
Y On iuiurious to the crop. The mclo
- uround cannot be broken too deep y
fore the vines begin to run, but u y
~ positive injury to the vine Tor The pio
eeks. TO 20 three inches below the surla'
ne or over which the vine has already ru
,r bis Great care should be taken in by
ve-w- ding the vines when working amor
signs them with the hoe. For every tend
broken or bruised on the vInc,
ms. OF tfnit is retarded in its maturity. Ac
* 1e' tie ground clean around the YIN
and as fast as the vine clonga'cs
! No. branch peg il down, 50 that TIC VA
may not blow them about and Drc
=, them. Ii the striped bug i trout
III u some. mix one portion Of guano
.eplied,two of gypsum and dust over the yi'
ali The vhcn the dew is on-thc bugs y
vulchiy uSf" ~ - ~,
'rybody lhc iiis' ''- -,s... ..,r H..
your rvincs VIII mature - $500
Z ,ha. from the time Of setting; the Sec
q hold settings in about three weeks. As
season advances, they will mature
ains the less than three weeks. Fine crops
melons are made BY using brush
Of girls tic vines 70 run on and clinsto.
!, seed Of the first melon that I'll
IT. should be saved to the neSt seas
xis'cnee planting, If il grew where no 2
= man nav member Of tho melon family 3
eighteen imprci5 nav - .-.,'-s, ,-.-,.'-o
PrEs FRYING EcGs.l am conviI
!, wcek from numerous experiments, tiiai
A.n.re. may be better preserved ~ corn
= NJ. or bran than in any thing else.