The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-04-26


best seed available should be OBJ
tanned.
An example is Is cents and %
cents alfalfa seed. The Is cent
seed germinated 81 per cent-30
per cent of this seed would have
produced sturdy plants.
Eighty-seyen per cent of the 22-
cent seed would have produced
sturdy plants.
In other words, 80 to SO per cent
more value for an increase of 16
per cent in the purchasing price.
Cantaloupe seed is more valuable
in crop return, especially when the
short producing season is taken in
to consideration.
Good seed, uniform In color and
size should be obtained il possible.
The seed should be kept in cool
dry place until ready for planting
A tablespoonful of kerosene sprink-
led over and mixed into a pound of
seed prevents the entrance of wire
worm and other, soil maggots from
molesting the seed and sprouts.
The night before the seed is
planted 1T should be dumped into a
pail of warm water and allowed to
set until the following morning.
This is known as the floating
method. All seed found to have
fioated should be thrown out.
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dried and it is then ready for use.
In the meantime the soil has been
worked up to the very best tilth.
Where 1T is possible to turn under
alfalfa or some other green cover
crop the best results will be OBJ
tanned.
A light dressing with manure
should be included in this system.
The field should be plowed In the
Fall so that better tilth and airiness
would be assured.
After the field is planted to the
cover crop desired just following the
close of the picking season the COW
er crop will start Immediately and
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Due to the fact that the soil is in
working tilth and the cover crop Is
young and tender and will easily de-
cay, 1t will not be necessary to plow
the field again until the time of
planting has arrived.
The time of planting for canta-
loupes as we'll as other field crops
causes more speculation throughout
the country than does speculation on
the stock market.
There is a certain class conscious
ness as to the time of planting. The
human family is pretty much the
same as some of the families of the
lower forms of life and many times
we do things because the time has
arrived In the minds of the major
ity of the people.
Cantaloupes should not be plant
ed until the ground is warm enough
so that an irrigation following
planting, which is known as the dry
method, will bring this seed up i'm
II the seed is allowed to
stay In the wet ground 1t will be
found, II the weather is not warm,
to rot.
The ground this season contains
considerable moisture, sufficient in
most cases to germinae the seed.
The weather, however, has been
cold, and consequently the seed will
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The other method of planting is
irrigating first, furrowing and
planting Immediately, and with this
method usually the seed is planted
below the water line. even with the
water line. and above the water line.
After the seed has been planted 1t is
covered. The individ-
ual hills should be far enough back
from the furrow SO that irrigation
can take place without molesting
papers or causing the young plant
injury due to too much water, yet
not so far back but what the seep-
ing can take place, and the plant
receive sufficient moisture to insure
its sturdy healthy growth.
One advantage of irrigating first
is that the weeds will be brought
out and can be easily cultivated and
killed. Cultivation should go for
ward rapidly while the plants are
covered, as this is the propitious
time to kill all weeds which usually
are growing rapidly.