Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-12-14 | Page 9 | Big Prize Pumpkin to Make 200 Pies

BIG PRIZE PUMPKIN PUMPKINS S TO MAKE PIES Great Vegetable Tips Scales at 50 Pounds Flat Flat- FARGO N N. D D. Dec Two H. 14 Two hundred pumpkin pies pies enough enough to cause a ariot riot In hungry Armenia will Armenia will be made from one pumpkin after the farmers of the state had had opportunity to view It to their hearts' hearts content The giant pumpkin with which County Agent C C. B B. Aamodt of Bottineau county Is claiming the championship tips the scales at fifty pounds ringside It Is seventeen and one-half one inches In diameter and has a circumference nearly as as- great as that of former President Taft measuring measuring meas mess two fifty-two and one-half one inches Ambitious Ambitious Am Ant- statisticians have calculated that the pumpkin contains sufficient edible material to provide holiday dessert for every resident of a town of population population tion Conservative housewives say it will produce at least pies and possibly if one is to skimp a bit with the he fillingIn filling In no previous year has North Dakota Da Da- Da- Da kota produced a more bounteous pumpkin crop according to reports to the State Agricultural l college oll ge Reports also tell tel pf of ot I new records in live stock raising dairy dalry- ang sag and grain and vegetable growing I With the advancement of diversified farming many farmers including newcomers newcomers newcomers new new- comers In the state who are taking ad advantage advantage advantage ad- ad vantage of cheap lands available have b en I for high honors in various f oiS branches c of a agriculture As a r result many of ot the old records including pumpkin acreage records have been shattered