OCR Text |
Show d . -- . .J. . 1" i . ' 'l SEPT. THURSDAY, eat yellow watermellons? Will we Hie small question facing watermelon growers this summer is: Will Americans eat a yellow watermelon? To be sure, the skin is a reassuring green with darker green stripes, but the flesh Baby, as the melon is called, is a winner. The Department of Agriculture is more skeptical. matured faster and was The resident watermelon marketing expert there told the National Geographic Society: Yellow watermelons have been around for at least 30 years, but they never is bright yellow. The men who sell seeds to home think 'Yellow gardeners really took. He remembers a variety called Honey Cream, which sweeter than red melons, but it never became popular because people thought watermelons should be red. a hybrid from Taiwan, where it is called Yellow Orchid, has the same advantages as YELLOW BABY, DAIRYMEN POWER OUTAGES GAN COST YOU FOR MONEY. DETAILS KENNETH S. GET P.T.O. TYPE A - PORTER PRESTON. Early Alberta GENERATOR. I5M745. COLLECT CALL Honey Cream, along with fewer seeds and more edible flesh than red melons. But the Agriculture De- partment doubts that the IDAHO yellow melon will overtake its red cousins very soon. Of the 970,000 pounds of watermelon seed stocks, only 11,000 pounds are of yellow varieties. The most popular red variety is the Charleston Grey, a melon that long, light-gree- n was introduced in 1954. Cannonball, a roundish melon, and Crimson Sweet, a close relative of Charleston Grey, also are popular. Tomatoes Peaches SS-OO1- b73tvAl1 "1 Frisk Apples Sent Corn $5.50Bssfcsi 49Dsz. Pears Cantalopes $5.25 10Lk $6.25lrt" 2015 NORTH NORTH UP FAST are Sugar Baines, small "icebox watermelons that weigh from 6 to 10 pounds. They can be grown farther north than many of the large melons. Though there is a trend to small melons that flourish in the north, the leading watermelon state is Florida, followed by Texas, Georgia, and South Carolina. Indiana ranks fifth by virtue of heavy production in the southern COMING MAIN 84321 LOGAN, UTAH part of the state.. United States watermelon output reached 2,432,200,000 was unripe. developed Yellow Baby has his own test: Tap the watermelon on the center with your knuckle. If it sounds like you're tapping your forehead, it's underripe. If it sounds like your, chest, it's ripe. If it sounds like your stomach, it's Nowadays, a great many melons are sold in cut pieces, and even a child can tell whether they are ripe. Be- pounds in 1975. They were valued at $97.4 million at the farm. Production was slightly lower in 1974 and higher in 1973. Early reports indicate that 1976 may be a bigger watermelon year than 1975. sides, plunk versus plink isnt infallible. The test doesn't work on naturally hollow or crisp melons. The Chinese farmer who COMMERCIAL growing is a risky business. Watermelons appeal to a host of pests as well as people. Apart from the vagaries of weather, enemies include cucumber beetles, melon aphids, cutworms, wire worms, fusar-iuwilt, anthracnose, and downy mildew. Even if a watermelon grows to round, firm, fully packed maturity, it can fall rot Airing prey to stem-en- d shipment to distant markets. But melons are less prone to thump damage these days. Back in Model-- T days, any father could crank the family car and thump a picnic watermelon 1976 Painter's Special Universal Interior Soft Glow Enamel i 5 CsL Cass is Asti'S! (Only AnHaMy White) 44 Factory Fabric e Close Out m 9, Eas Lsa Odor teara Gaad la Apply Caterfast ScrsbaMs State Wallpaper $129 Mam with equal skill. A solid plunk indicated a ripe melon; a plink meant the fruit Stjlaa sf 1st Ohs To North Chsess A Main, 27 Mate N. Hast te tba Bluebird a Yard Frssi. Saitbfteld CAPITALISM AND POVERTY our free Capitalism has enterprise system produced a level of family Quality income in this country so high that the federally established poverty level in the United States is higher than die average family income second most in the powerful nation of die world the USSR. Yet, this is the ORNAMENTAL IRON so-call- Custom Built to Your Design Caught in the high fuel cost trap? mmsmimmmmmmmwasm system that some people want to replace . . . because it hasnt performed well enough to suit them. Herbert S. Richey, chairman of the Board of Directors, Chamber of Commerce of die United States. As JS) WATCH FOR COWS bo furniture, patio clothes line poles, posts, basketball ' goals playground equip, truck bumper guards and hitches, maHbox stands and welding. portable IEX BAER WELDING ; A. ORNAMENTAL IRON 101 W. NO.FROVIDENCE.UTAN 9 FN. 1ST 7S2-IOS- i The Occupational ' Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has withdrawn its booklet, Safety with Beef Cattle, written in Dick and Jane style, after criticism of such safety gems as, The best way not to have an accident is to prevent it The pamphlet also included a warning that manure is slippery. The agency now says the booklet was designed tor farm workers with little education. The pamphlet was part of a series of 60 pamphlets that was to cost 2x4x1 Insulate nowl CEDAR 1x12x14. 14 1.19.. 157.50 RIG. $1.96, Premium Brand. RockWool Insulation '4"x4xS sanded shop PLYWOOD $4.99 16.99 TODAYI A SHEET taxpayers $500,000. WIRE ONE OF THE WARMEST NEW PRODUCTS ON THE MARKET INSULATION A ROU POURING WOOL BY 3.25 OWENS CORNING FOIL RACK 70SO.FT.IAG COWBOY OIOF REG. 50 SQ. 6 YOU ARE INVITED TO COME IN AND OUR OPENING COMING 23" FOIL BACK 7tSQ.FT.BAG x COMKD GRAND REDWOOD SOON. ASPHALT A SQUARE X X X IN. Sll.il 1 SHINGLES ASHLIMAN ABOUT OUR HOME PLANING US HELP SERVICE-LEYOU PLAN THE HOME OF YOUR DREAMS NOW 5634222 n 3.70 OF MERCHANDISE. FOR BEFORE WILDING YOUR HOME, CALL ED TIBBITTS OR LARRY 8.92 NEW STORE. NUMBER FT. BAG REG. $11.75 HAVE NOW OPENED SHOP IN THEIR WATCH 17 YEAR BOND SELF SEAL 6" x 15" FOIL BACK WAYNE AND CINDY RUSSELL SEE THEIR FINE LINES ALLIED OR GAF $7.15 .I. $9.35 Bl TIO Af OmVD TJ x - SHEET ROCI 59w. n 1x4x4 GRAPE CEDAR STAKES GSM) WAYNE HERE SADDLE OF STYLES OF HAND. TACK ONLY AND LADIES A A COWTOWN WIDE HIS AND IS HOLDING CINDY ON SHOWS R HAS AND 34V 29 10.45' UU FOR VtOOt x GUMQ mmm Pliil SUPPLIES! ONE OF MANY MENS BOOTS TONY LAMA, 9 OTHERS ( CANTWELL BROS LUMBER 719 SOUTH MAIN, LOGAN, UTAH NEXT TO GRIFFIN FEED & SUPPLY. A FRIDAYS 563-622- 2 4 5:C$ FRIDAYS OPEN TILL 7:00 7t30 . 44) 7i 30. 7:00 MONDAY THRU YHURS. SMITHFIELD, UTAH WEAIHERSTRIPpIngTiNSUUTION STORE HOURS: MONDAY THRU SAT. 9:00 YARD HOURS: 532 SOUTH MAIN 1 nn FENCING G DDR SELECTION , . M SATURDAYS 9:00- - V 5:00 |