Melon Culture a Practical Treatise On the Principles Involved in the Production
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14. ) As soon as the crates are ready, they should be taken directly to the refrigerator cars and packed in as closely as possible, so as to prevent any shaking about while in transit. Ordinary cars will hold from 1, 200 to 1, 400 Climax baskets, which would make from 20, 000 to 22, 000 melons to the car of the Rocky Ford or Netted Gem type. Watermelons are nearly always shipped in bulk, loose in the car, and as about three times as many acres are devoted to the growing of watermelons in tiie U...nited States as are given to cantaloupes, it will be readily seen that the melon business as- sumes large proportions in the commercial life of this country and makes large demands upon the transportation facilities. In some of the prominent melon-growing states, the yield of watermelons per HARVESTING AXh MARKETING MELONS 57 acre is given at from 800 to 1, 200 marketable melons. This will depend very much upon the sea- son, whether favorable or unfavorable, and also upon the soil, the kind and quantity of fertilizers used, as well as the care and cultivation given the plants.
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