Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1913 — Her Cradle a Pumpkin. [ARTICLE]

Her Cradle a Pumpkin.

A giant pumpkin which four-year-old Miss Rolls of Santa Paula used as a cradle was raised by C. G. Teague, manager of the Blanchard ranch, and is particularly wonderful for the fact that on the same Vine were twelve others weighing an average of 180 pounds each. As this weighs 230 pounds a little figuring shows that there was over a ton of pumpkin on one vine—2,39o pounds, to be exact It received no fertilizer or special cultivation. This pumpkin * measures 7 feet 8 inches around the “waist” stands 3 feet 9 inches high and measures in circumference lengthwise 10 feet 3 inches.