Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1902 — Some Freak Vegetation. [ARTICLE]

Some Freak Vegetation.

The entries in Long’s 2nd annual corn show end today, but the corn will remain on exhibition for several days, until the awards are made, towards the latter part of this week. It is a fine exhibition, with many exhibitors. Some freak vegetation have been brought in. Notably some enormous radishes by Tom Crockett, southeast of town, which are record breakers. One is a turnip radish, which is a foot through, 18 inches long, and weighs 16 pounds. Its weight is far out of proportion to its size, but, as one of our inland secretaries of the navy is said to have remarked when be first went on board a war vessel, “The dum thing is holler.” Another of Tom’s radishes, the long variety is 2| feet long and four inches thick; and a fine shapely foot. Still another of the same variety is even larger, but is exceedingly crooked. Some big turnips have also been brought in, G.R. Robinson has one weighing 6f pounds, and Joe Nagel one of just the same weight, They are monsters in size and beauties in shape.