| Show PUMPKIN IS CROWS FROM SEED CAST AWAY IN GARBAGE shell of vegetable colossus Colos suc in rhode island used by hen as brooding place and fourteen chicks are hatched out providence R I 1 those good and exact people who may have doubted that cinderella canderella after all had a pumpkin as a charlot chariot are respectfully re I 1 erred to a prudence island production in the pumpkin jine which residents ot of that pat t of the state proudly claim was has tho the largest and heaviest ever raised in new england they are sure aure the prines primers could have ridden la in it affee rats had bad cleaned the shell of the prudence island colos gua of its contents a hen took po possession session and established her nest with a lot of 0 room to spate and hatched out a blood of chickens the vine on which the monster grew came up of its own accod d on a spot where joseph wilson steward of tho the island station of 0 the rhode island yacht club threw a pan of garbage and vegetable ege table parings which aich doubtless contained the seed aced the vine was of phenomenal growth be ing by measurement 28 feet front from root to tip hut bat was slow in maturing and the pumpkins did not ripen till after a light frost had bad pinched the vine all ot of the pumpkins were large but the largest was three feet eight inches in diameter and of 0 proportionate m weight eight charles charlea smith of the narra fansett day bay oyster company and david Pu auffman Buff ffman inan jr of the twin beach inn ina farm carried the pumpkin to a shed near mr smiths dwelling it was waa their Jn intention to place it on a tf high shelf out ot 0 of 0 i la the great weight of the th fruit anade this ibis lt ita possible lind it was WAB left ora on the floor the fondu fondness ead of rats for pumpkin seeds la Is well mell known however boever and it was not long before they hod had gnawed a hole into the side or of tile the mammoth and completely excavated tile hie sort soft in which contained the seeds the pumpkin seemed destined to liao liae a domestic caider some three tareo beeks ago mr smith missed a choice rhode island red han bon front from his bla flock ind soon found her in the pumpkin 14 chickens A hon hen discovered he chicks busily consuming the tha floor and wall mall of their dwelling and lie he rind was so thin in spots as aa to chow it 1 at their mother had subsisted argel upon tt it during the period of incubation iKu thanking TIAn king that the pumpkin may live been ot of some bone unusual Na klets bailet ilet ho be friends had notified the secretary f the tha pei orange grange agi io lo cloty clety asking as kang that a committee be ent to prudence to ma make ke official and record of its dl di but the unpleasantness ot of vinter boating caused the examina ion to be postponed hom time to into inie and the pumpkin Is now in such state of collapse as to make verl allon of exiting measurements im possible os sible it Is a matter of regret that lone of the beds was mas saved |
