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Show PUMPKIN IS MONSTER OROW8 FROM HEED CAST AWAY IN GAPDAQC. Shell of Vegetable CoImiui In Rhode Island Uted by Hen at Brooding Place and Fourteen ChlcHt Arc Matched Out. Providence It. I Those Rood ami lyj exact iMMiple who way liavs doubted j that f'lmlurella, after nil, had a pump- kin as n chariot, are respectfully re ferred In a Prudence Island production In the pumpkin line, which residents i( Hint part of tho state proudly claim KelBMii.m "" '' largest nnd lienrleet ever AfliT rnta had cleaned the shell t of the Prudonco liland colossus of Its MMk contents, n lien took posseeelnn and JMM established hor neat, with a lot of I room to span' and buttled out a bnNl (if i Mi kiuiit I The vim- on which Ihr monster grew ami up of Its own accord, on a spot whi re Joseph Wllmni steward or the Island station or tho Ithode Island Ynrhl club, threw a pan of garbago and vesetablo parlnga, which dnutitleim nmtalned the seed The villi' wr of phi'tiouii'iinl growth, being be-ing by nieuauri'im-iit. 28 feet from root to lip, but was slow In maturing and the pumpkins did not ripen till aftor a light frost hail pinched the vine. All of the pumpkins were large, but the largest was three feet, eight Inches ludlainlerr and of proportionate ganeett flay Oyster oomany, and I David Huffman, Jr. of the Twin Uracil Inn rami, carried the pumpkin to a sbeil near Sir Hmlths dwelling It 1 was their Intention to place It on a 1 lhl(h shelf, out of retch ofHSJjit the great welgnt of (hi fruit tH fll lia-pnaelble lia-pnaelble and II was left HI'M '1oor The rnndnesa of rata 'AfPf P'('n seeds Is well known hovHy J, id it was not long before theyHje jS iwnl a hole Into the aide of lltd nolh and completely oirarateilHi t In tertor which contained thBJl The pumpkin seemed MnM I to have a domestic career jterur hreo weeks ago Mr Smith milled a mice Ithode Island red hen fr hi flock ind siMin found tier In tfe p ipkln with II chickens When dim etcl he chicks were busily coMami the 1imr and wall or their delmc and hi- rind was so thin In M(a as to diow that their mother lit) tuhslsted iira'ly iiimn It during tbt period of in iibatlon Thinking that the puajajiin may ntc been of some unilntjjl variety, Hi friends had notlfletl tin) retary f ihe Portsmouth Orango Agricultural irii ty asking that a cmawUtioe be 'ill to Prudence to male official in asureuient ami record if IM dl in nslnna, but the ttnpleasinUH of inter boating caused the cwsilna i"M to be postponed frum ttsw to ime and the pumpkin Is bow It such a'ate of collapse as to male verl latlnn of eilstlng mensuremeHi lm-ostlble lm-ostlble It Is a matter of regiet that me or the seeds was saved |
