Re: Pumpkin - Squash or OPEN CLASS!

Bill Van and List,

       I would like to propose that 3 classes be incorporated into all 
weigh-offs.

  Glass 1  PUMPKIN   All specimens in this glass must be 90% Yellow to Orange.

  Glass 2  SQUASH    All specimens in this glass must be 90%  Gray blue or 
Green

  Glass 3  OPEN         All specimens not qualifying for class 1 or 2.

                                 This third class will include all, and could 
also be called, Giant Cucurbit, Squmpkin or Giant Gourd Class. All White and 
multicolored fruit will be in this class. As in baseball, where all plays to 
close to call go to the runner, we will have the rule if it is to close to 
call as a pumpkin or squash, it goes in Class 3.  My reason for this is 
simple. To encourage the purest color strains of PUMPKIN and SQUASH to 
prevail. It will improve the color strains of all pumpkins and squash. It 
will make it easy on the judges. We will know, without seeing a picture of 
the fruit, (pumpkin or Squash) that it met these strict guide lines, so it 
must be what it says it is. This also would eliminate the new Grid-System, 
that must be very time consuming to implement at a weigh-off.

  Alan R.

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