Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1909 — These Cucumber Vines Here Not Injured By Frosts. [ARTICLE]

These Cucumber Vines Here Not Injured By Frosts.

Here is a story from the fertile brain of a farmer of Carroll county. The farmer says: “A neighbor decided to -plant a patch of cucumbers, and not being a very rapid worker, vines began. to coffie up in the first hills before h§ got to the end of the row. Pretty soon be felt something twining about his legs, and looking around saw that the cucumber vines had overtaken him and threatened to choke the breath out of him. Reaching for his knife to cut his way out, he found that a large cucumber had grown in his pocket, completely filling it so that he couldn’t get his hands in and he had to call for help.” Who is next?