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Battalion/Papl
April 19,
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A&M scientists making
marketable mini-melons
by Tanya Yanta
Battalion Reporter
A watermelon for two? The
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Station is trying to improve the
state’s midget watermelon crop.
New Hampshire Midget
watermelons, which weigh three
to five pounds, can be eaten by
two, people in one sitting and
were first produced in the
1950s, but the crop has never
been grown extensively in
Texas.
tion has received seeds from
Japan and is testing them to see
if they can be grown here with
the same quality as those grown
in Japan.
Japan has grown the midget
melons successfully for many
years. They are sweet and aren’t
susceptible to diseases there.
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“In Texas, the midget water
melons are poor quality and are
susceptible to diseases,” Dr.
Warren Barham, a Texas A&M
horticulture professor, said.
“The two most serious diseases
that the midget melons get are a
foliage disease that keeps the
melons from maturing and a
root disease that doesn’t let wa
ter pass through to the water
melon.”
“Not much interest has been
shown in growing the small
watermelons outside of re
staurants and home gardens,”
Barham said. “It is easier to pro
duce large melons at less cost.”
Since 1935.
The experiment station is
trying to find a way to produce
the midget melons with satisfac
tory results in Texas. The sta-
The midget watermelons can
be planted closer together than
regular melons. They resemble
regular melons and require san
dy, well-drained soil. The
midget melons have red meat
and seeds, but aren’t as sweet as
regular melons. The small
watermelons require special
shipping containers because
their rinds aren’t as tough.
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DALLAS — Allegations that
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pumped into the U.S. strategic
oil reserve near Baton Rouge,
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federal officials say.
Authorities say the 44 million
barrels of good or bad oil in
jected into the salt domes at
Bayou Choctaw, La., have been
mixed thoroughly since 1977-
78, the period of suspected infu
sions of low-quality oil alleged by
a Louisiana state employee.
“It’s a homogenized Choctaw
blend is what I call it,” said Clay
Nevling, petroleum accountant
for the Department of Energy’s
reserve program. “Whatever
you get out of those caverns (at
Bayou Choctaw) is going to be
the same.”
Nevling also said 7 million
barrels of oil withdrawn from
the Bayou Choctaw domes in
late 1980 and early last year
showed no irregularities.
The DOE inspector general’s
office began taking samples
from Bayou Choctaw caverns
last month to test for contamina
tion in the wake of allegations by
Steve Johnston, a field auditor
with the Louisiana Department
of Conservation.
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Johnston’s attorney, Mike
Connelly, said his client’s claims
include fraud . in construction
contracts and the “possibility
that chemical wastes may have
been mixed in with some of that
stuff pumped into the dome.”
Johnston’s main charge,
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quality oil required li
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when the oil wastom A
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Condominium living is just a
short walk from campus.
A three minute walk from the
main campus brings you to The
Northgate—condominiums custom
designed for Texas A&M students.
Fully furnished all the way
down to the forks and knives, The
Northgate lets you step into an
incomparable student lifestyle with
nothing but a suitcase.
The Northgate offers two and
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more information today. 209 E.
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semester and promises to be very informative.
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