Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1899 — Bad Muskmelons Discussed. [ARTICLE]

Bad Muskmelons Discussed.

Purdue university agricultural experiment station has issued a bulletin on the causes of inferior quality of muskmelons and remedy. The usual cause assigned is wet season, which can only be remedied by thorough drainage. Leaf blight during the growing season may be remedied with a spray of Bordeaux mixture two or three times, depending on the, amount of rainfall. The bulletin also states that a frequent cause of poor melons is the fact that they are picked too green.