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a fine melon. nigh, be ieriliicd by the
pollen OF poor melon, for tia, reason
the field in general was the thing To look
10 In the selection 81 seed.
Mr.. fcnlason insisted that the early
melon was also important.
on the suhjce, of "iiow to get Early
Melons" Mr.. Blinn said they had 60, a
good deal on this subjcc, in the discus
sion Of seed. Still seed WAS no; every
thing. He added to early ripcned seed
\ sandy soil. plenty 81 wafer. go.,d eui,i-
walton and plenty oi working of the hoc
handle
MIR. Little spoke of the importance Of
cultivating the plant early aud M, dis
turning the vine after !, began to run.
Ben Reed. being insisted on for his cx.
pcricncc in getting early melons. said he
could always get earlier melons ny get
ting over in his ncighbor's patch rather
than by working his own.
MIR. Guthrie said never let your seed
freeze. II never gets SO dry but that /,
hard freeze will injurc it.
MI. Harsin and Mr.. NANNY disagreed
with MIR. Guthrie about frost hurting the
seed.
MIR. Bailey supported Mr.. Guthrie.
Returning To the topic Of irrigation
MIR. Ecnlason said there was great diver
ing while the early blooms were setting.
He knew. a grower who got a good field
of melons and he never watcrcd when
the blooms were setting.
M,. Bowman told OF the growers ol
Ordway being pronounccdly opposed
to watering their cantaloupcs while
bloom was setting.
Mr.. Kouns pointed out that by getting
your plant started with small amount
Of moisture the roots spread out in search
of water instead of punching up as they
did II the ground was soaked with water.
MIR. kouns also suggested selecting sccp
from somewhat larger cantaloupcs. Our
cantaloupcs had been graded down until
alton shipping crate. He said futhcr
that whenever the cantaloupc plants
looked spotted as il with variiish they
wanted water.
On the subject of canta'oupc rust Mr..
Blinn said the results from spraying had
not been greatly beneficial. The hope
of the grower was to find a plan, Of a re-
sistant quality, but he had not found
such vet. Perhaps there were better
sprays and ways Of spraying than had
yet been used.
Mr.. Lit,le's experience had convinced
him that the rust was worst on low, heavy
land.
Mr.. Blinn said humidity certainly had
to do with rust and as the low, land got
the most humidity from fogs the rust
was worst in low lying fields.
On the subject of Crop Prospects and
Markets, Mr.. Kouns was called for and
said the commission men told us we
could not produce too many cantaloupes,
but he noticed that whenever we got up
to go cars a day the market invariably
began to slump and some OF them didn't
pay freight. The prospect this spring
Tor planting was immense because of
discouragement with other crops. Those
cants picked up to 10th of August would
bring from 50. to S., from 10th of Aug
ust to 18TH s.. to $50. from I5th OF Aug
ust to Ist of September they would bring
very little, all that was ripened after Ist
of September would not pay for ship
would give us thirty cars day. He
deprecated the suspicion that he was
talking now for his own interest. The
common interest was also his interest.
Mr.. Hale sustained the view of Mr..
Kouns that the production could be
easily overdone, and he had with him a
number of definite figures of the past
seasons crops to sustain this opinion.
He believed that anything over 1900
acres in the valley was pretty sure to
glut the market.
Mr.. Ebbert was not prepared to advise
definitely about acreage and didn't be-
lieve there was any probability OF the
great over planting. say 10000 acres.
that had been talked about. but il was 4
matter for the growers to be judicious
about.
p. X. Blinn gave his paper on Flower
Culture" FirSt be sure you have plenty
Of water by irrigation. He would not
undertake carrying water to the flower
beds. Flower seeds were small and
moisture had to be supplied quite