Addison then suggested that we plant the ground under the haymaker to cantaloupes, and on the 4th of June we planted forty-five hills with seed.
The venture proved the most successful of all.

The melon plants came up as well as they could have done in Colorado or Arizona.

It is astonishing how many cantaloupes will grow on a plot of ground seventy-four feet long by nineteen feet wide.

On the 16th of September we counted nine hundred and fifty-four melons, many of them large and nearly all of them yellow and finely ripened! They had matured in ninety days.
In fact, the crop proved an "embarrassment of riches." We feasted on them ourselves and gave to our neighbors, and yet our store did not visibly diminish.

The county fair occurred on September 22 that fall; and Addison suggested loading a farm wagon--one with a body fifteen feet long--with about eight hundred of the cantaloupes and tempting the public appetite--at ten cents a melon.