Cantaloupes
Michael O'Brien, Department of Agricultural Engineering, University of California, Davis.
California Agriculture 18(4):3-4. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v018n04p3.
Michael O'Brien is Specialist, Department of Agricultural Engineering, University of California, Davis.
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.
John C Lingle and Robert F. Kasmire, Depart, ment of Vegetable Crops, University of California, Davis, also cooperated in these studies.