. The modern guide for fruit and truck shippers and poultry raisers in the southern states; . too green itwill be of no flavor, therefore worthless to the trade. When the melon begins to ripen, pick entirely by color and you will Cantaloupes. soon be able to tell a melon as soon as it will ship. If you begin forcingthe melons from the vines, it bleeds the vines and the other melons comeoff premature, and are punks or without flavor. This is a great mistake,and if a melon be picked two days too soon it is never good and othersare injured on account of it. The best way to pick is in sacks hu
. The modern guide for fruit and truck shippers and poultry raisers in the southern states; . too green itwill be of no flavor, therefore worthless to the trade. When the melon begins to ripen, pick entirely by color and you will Cantaloupes. soon be able to tell a melon as soon as it will ship. If you begin forcingthe melons from the vines, it bleeds the vines and the other melons comeoff premature, and are punks or without flavor. This is a great mistake,and if a melon be picked two days too soon it is never good and othersare injured on account of it. The best way to pick is in sacks hungunder the shoulder, and the pickers should have enough sacks so thatwhen one is filled it can be laid on the sled which follows the picker?(leave a roadway every twelve rows for the sled), and another sack takenin. The sled is then hauled to the packing shed, which should have along trough made of burlap about three feet from the ground into whichthe melons can be emptied from the sacks so that the melons are neverbruised and never exposed to the sun after picking. In crating, take hold.
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