Salt Lake Telegram | 1910-04-02 | Page 24 | Grows One Turnip Weighing 13 Pounds

GR GROWS WS ONE TURNIP WEIGHING 13 13 POUNDS LOUIS Mo F. F. F W. W Kriege's big turnips turnips' turn may help State Immigration Commissioner loner Curran refute the libel that uncultivated Missouri lands would not be good for farming if they were cleared cleared a tract of land at St. St Clair Franklin county a year rear ago and now he is raising turnips seven times the normal size of turnips And they are as solid as any Globe turnip that was ever grown One big turnip raised by by the farmer weighed thirteen pounds and was thirty thirty- three Inches In circumference Kriege brought Drought It to St. St Louis St.-Louis Louis as a aa gUt for his brother A. A C. C Kriege of ot No 10 Oakland Oakland Oakland Oak Oak- land avenue The ground I cleared said Kriege was considered sandy Two hundred of the turnips that Ive I've got out of the first crop are all that you ou can put into a two- two horse wagon Most 1 of the turnips are nearly as big as this one Kriege says It Is not only turnips that the newly cultivated land Is producing In prodigious size and quantity but watermelons watermelons watermelons water water- melons and sweet potatoes as well The Thc melons says Kriege are the best and biggest I have ever seen The sweet potatoes weigh as much as six and a a. half pounds apiece A A. C. C Kriege the farmers farmer's St. St Louis brother says he will plant the Icing king turnip turnip turnip tur tur- nip to see whether he cannot get seed that will bring forth still larger ones