. Cantaloupe culture : a treatise on cantaloupe growing under irrigation in Colorado. Melons. CANTALOUPE CULTURE AND PEDIGREED CANTALOUPE SEED. ? ^•^ ..$' !^ ^ -.'>i. Plate No. 12—1. A Vine Rusted on Check Row. Resistance to Rust. Adjacent Vine Showing PLANT DISEASES Crop rotation, seed selection, or breeding for disease resistance offer the best means of controlling plant diseases; the spraying of the crop with the Bordeaux mixture or other fungicides is about the only other means at hand. In Colorado, spraying has not proven as successful as is reported to be in other states, doubtless du
. Cantaloupe culture : a treatise on cantaloupe growing under irrigation in Colorado. Melons. CANTALOUPE CULTURE AND PEDIGREED CANTALOUPE SEED. ? ^•^ ..$' !^ ^ -.'>i. Plate No. 12—1. A Vine Rusted on Check Row. Resistance to Rust. Adjacent Vine Showing PLANT DISEASES Crop rotation, seed selection, or breeding for disease resistance offer the best means of controlling plant diseases; the spraying of the crop with the Bordeaux mixture or other fungicides is about the only other means at hand. In Colorado, spraying has not proven as successful as is reported to be in other states, doubtless due to different climatic con- ditions. Careful control of irrigation seems to offer one means of lessening the attacks of some of the fungus troubles in the arid sections. HARVESTING After all injuries to the crop have been explained and remedial measures suggested, there still remains one great cause of poor returns from the cantaloupe crop, viz.,careless and unscrupulous methods of mar- keting. When cantaloupes are scarce and sales are quick, there seems to be no power on earth that will stay the hand of the average grower as he pushes his crop onto the market, with the encouragement of advices from his progressive (?) commission merchant; together they have pro- duced a glutted market with inferior products, instead of protecting the markets with a quality that would increase consumption, they simply let it fill up with everything and anything, and neither the grower or the consumer is benefitted. It is common for growers to admit that they are shipping cantaloupes that are not fit to be eaten, and it is not strange that a similar complaint comes from the consumer. 21. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Blinn, Philo K. , 1869-; Rocky Ford Cantaloupe Seed Breeder's Association. Rocky Ford,
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