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research article

Cantaloupes

authors

Michael O'Brien, Department of Agricultural Engineering, University of California, Davis.

publication information

California Agriculture 18(4):3-4. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v018n04p3. April 1964.

author affiliations

Michael O'Brien is Specialist, Department of Agricultural Engineering, University of California, Davis.

abstract

The experimental harvester for cantaloupes described in this report has a conveyor belt allowing vines to be lifted as many as six or seven times with tensionremoval of ripe fruit without damage to melons remaining, or plants.

author notes

John C Lingle and Robert F. Kasmire, Depart, ment of Vegetable Crops, University of California, Davis, also cooperated in these studies.