Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1901 — The Watermelon a Fruit. [ARTICLE]

The Watermelon a Fruit.

Some men have never been willing to class the luscious “watermllllon” as a vegetable, and on this point the United States Government has been forced to come to the darkeys’ point of view. The decision has been made by the general board of appraisers on a case arising at Nogales upon the right to import melons aa vegetables. The board decided that “the melon Is known technically, popularly and commercially as a fruit, and therefore dutiable.” The same view Is taken, technically, by the Department of Agriculture, and we may now rest assured that the status of the watermelon, muskmelon, cantaloupe nnd their whole kindred has been raised a few points officially and permanently. —Los Angeles Times.