Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1883 — Those big Roots and Things. [ARTICLE]

Those big Roots and Things.

People who don’t live in Jasper ; county, or pretty near nt, ’usually have very crude ideas cf tfhat big vegetables really are. The Rev. > Small, for instance,was in The Re- ,! publican office, Monday morning, * and told us about a big potato down at Idaville. It actually weighed one , pound and three fourths, or two ' pounds and three fourths, the. reverend gentleman hail forgotten which. 'Wb gave White county the benefitof his doubt and took the larger figures, and’ then called i ( atten'icii to Frank Watson's big-: gest potato, which weighs four; ! pound*- After . the same manner i ! - be Joliet, 111., Republic jpid, Sun, j ■inakes a big blow about what it 1 , ■ calls the “Boss Turnip” a root which some benighted Sucker had brought back from Dakota. It weighs six pounds. Mr. Frazee's • I turnip, in The Republican's big j vegetable show, weighs twelve | pounds. It is only a common turnip l and grew, huge simply because' it hail a well soil to grow ia.