Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1904 — BIG CABBAGE AND POTATOES. [ARTICLE]

BIG CABBAGE AND POTATOES.

Union township has got ’em all skinned cn cabbages. Amos Alter has given a specimen head to The Republican which is 17 inches through, of solid bead, while its leaves spread like a gingham umbrella in a rain-storm. “Its’ good and firm and free from worm” and and weighs 22 pounds in its bare feet. Amos says he raised 15 head all built on the same generous dimensions, and plenty of them fully as large, as this one. Amos also brought us in a squash that is “some pumpkins’ in the squash line. It is fully two feet long, and of a good lateral developement; though not built quite so much after Amos's own broad and liberc.l style of architecture as the cabbage is. In the way of big potatoes, we suspect that Nelson Ducharme, of Ba. Kley, is some laps ahead in the season’s production. He brought us in four of his Maggie Murphies the combined weight of which, when first dug, was a little over 8 pounds, and after drying more than a week still weigh 7 j pounds