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PURDUE UNIVERSITY Agricultural Experiment Station
Circular no. 68 LaFayette, Ind., August, 1917
MELON GROWING IN INDIANA
Prepared under the direction of C. G. Woodbury By H. J. Reed
PRESENT STATUS OF THE BUSINESS
The growing of cantaloupes and watermelons in Indiana is a business of considerable importance. It brings great returns to a comparatively few, unusually able growers and brings to many others returns varying widely from high profit to considerable loss from season to season. So far as soil, climate and transportation
Fig. 1. Harvesting cantaloupes at Decker, Indiana. The pickers are sent out with baskets and go carefully over the Held, picking only those melons which are ready for shipment
facilities are concerned, many sections of Indiana offer unexcelled opportunities. The greatest handicap to the stabilizing of the melon business and putting it on a plane where it can be expanded with fairly certain prospects of good returns to the point warranted by the natural advantages of the State, is lack of organization of the industry and lack of cooperation among all growers. Some cantaloupes are being marketed from Indiana, which are fully equal to the best from any section of the United States; some growers have built up individual reputations and special markets with great sue-
Object Description
| Title | Extension Circular, no. 068 (Aug. 1917) |
| Purdue Identification Number | UA14-13-circular068 |
| Title of Issue | Melon growing in Indiana |
| Author of Issue |
Woodbury, C. G. (Charles Goodrich), 1884-1971 Reed, Harry J. (Harry James), 1887-1960 |
| Date of Original | 1917 |
| Publisher | Purdue University. Agricultural Extension Service |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Melons--Indiana |
| Genre | Periodical |
| Collection Name | Extension Circular (Purdue University. Agricultural Extension Service) |
| Rights Statement | Copyright Purdue University. All rights reserved. |
| Coverage | United States – Indiana |
| Type | text |
| Format | JP2 |
| Language | eng |
| Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
| Date Digitized | 06/18/2015 |
| Digitization Information | Original scanned at 400 ppi on a BookEye 3 scanner using Opus software. Display images generated in Contentdm as JP2000s; file format for archival copy is uncompressed TIF format. |
| URI | UA14-13-circular068.tif |
Description
| Title | Extension Circular, no. 068 (Aug. 1917) |
| Purdue Identification Number | UA14-13-circular068 |
| Title of Issue | Melon growing in Indiana |
| Author of Issue |
Woodbury, C. G. (Charles Goodrich), 1884-1971 Reed, Harry J. (Harry James), 1887-1960 |
| Date of Original | 1917 |
| Publisher | Purdue University. Agricultural Extension Service |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Melons--Indiana |
| Genre | Periodical |
| Collection Name | Extension Circular (Purdue University. Agricultural Extension Service) |
| Rights Statement | Copyright Purdue University. All rights reserved. |
| Coverage | United States – Indiana |
| Type | text |
| Format | JP2 |
| Language | eng |
| Transcript | PURDUE UNIVERSITY Agricultural Experiment Station Circular no. 68 LaFayette, Ind., August, 1917 MELON GROWING IN INDIANA Prepared under the direction of C. G. Woodbury By H. J. Reed PRESENT STATUS OF THE BUSINESS The growing of cantaloupes and watermelons in Indiana is a business of considerable importance. It brings great returns to a comparatively few, unusually able growers and brings to many others returns varying widely from high profit to considerable loss from season to season. So far as soil, climate and transportation Fig. 1. Harvesting cantaloupes at Decker, Indiana. The pickers are sent out with baskets and go carefully over the Held, picking only those melons which are ready for shipment facilities are concerned, many sections of Indiana offer unexcelled opportunities. The greatest handicap to the stabilizing of the melon business and putting it on a plane where it can be expanded with fairly certain prospects of good returns to the point warranted by the natural advantages of the State, is lack of organization of the industry and lack of cooperation among all growers. Some cantaloupes are being marketed from Indiana, which are fully equal to the best from any section of the United States; some growers have built up individual reputations and special markets with great sue- |
| Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
| Date Digitized | 06/18/2015 |
| Digitization Information | Original scanned at 400 ppi on a BookEye 3 scanner using Opus software. Display images generated in Contentdm as JP2000s; file format for archival copy is uncompressed TIF format. |
| URI | UA14-13-circular068.tif |
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