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Show A good many Utah farmers continue to plant ' J?rafl their pumpkins and watermelons in close prox- WKM imlty. It does not Improve the pumpkins; it spoils "ifll the melons, for, as among the men and women of -f H Utah, so It is among the vegetables. Many a pump- H H kin (head) succeeds In marrying far above him, a-fll and often tho offspring too much resemble the vSH father to b& of any use. . fiflj This sexual mystery of the vegetable kingdom MB is most wonderful. Some years ago the late Gov. Jlnfl Stanford of Colifornia imported some scores of the .Ifil finest Smyrna fig trees and planted them on his lH great Vina farm. They grew magnificently, but ,b9 never bore any flgs. The Governor believed he H had been cheated. But two or three years ago a wi new overseer took charge of the great farm. When nHH he learned about the fig trees he examined them 9H and saw what the trouble was. He sent to the mountains of the Holy Land and obtained some' of flH the wild fig trees that grow there and planted 191 lH 14 1 K f them near the stately trees of ancient lineage. The IBhIt' IS result was a mighty crop of figs last year. f !' H ' Moral: Do not plant pumpkins and water- Hm9, Hi i melons in the same patch. They will go to Farm- b8c: H J ington, sure. |