People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-03-21

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combining with It's mammoth size the
finest favor ever known.
A new sweet corn, the Early Mas
tOdon Honey Sweet. 1t is fit for the
table in sixty days from planting; one
ear is enough for a meal for a large
family. Ears two and a half feet
long and eight inches in diameter,
four TO six TO the stalk, never less
than three; kernel, two and a half
inches in length, one and a half inches
in width and thickness, and are
sweeter than honey.
Next is the Giant cucumber, grow.
ing five feet long and twelve inches in
diameter; so prolific grower the Gu
cumbers pile on top OF each other.
The Early Mammoth musk melon,
grows TO weigh 100 pounds, twenty to
forty on vine; the first are ripe 10
sixty days from planting.
Cars MastodOD Giant water melor;
so great is the size Of these melons
they are shipped on fiat Cars with only
one on a Car.
The Royal Mammoth Golden Giant
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Onion which weighs from twenty-five
to forty pounds each, yielding as high
as 5000 bushels per acre.
ln pnmpking the Washington NAM
moth hard-shelled Gigantic takes the
cake, its only objection being its size;
unless grown near a railroad so that a
powerful derrick could be used to load
them on cars; they grow ten feet In
diameter, the flesh three aud half
feet thick. A hole is cut in one side.
a small pig is put 10 and it has food
eOough mar at hand to enable it to
grow into a large hog. The hard
shells are cleaned out and used for
houses, etc. A single vine will pl0-
duce twelve to eighteen pumpkins, 50
that If one wants house, wood shed
barn or other out buildings all he has
to do is to grow a single vine, clean
out the shells and he has buildings
enough for largefarm. Single seeds
lie each.
In tomatoes they offer a large list
OF varieties. The Gigantic Pouderosa
MastendODic Tree, which makes a
strong, growing tree, thirty feet high
and as many in breadth. The fruit is
very solid weighing fifteen TO twenty
five pounds, two to three tons to each
plant.
La turnirs the hatchless Gigantic
is a wonder, growing to 200 and $50
pounds, yielding over twenty car loads
per acre.
Potatoes, in list of 400 varieties
among the must noted is the Early
Gigantic MastOdon, which produces
5000 bushels per acre; single tubers
weigh eight TO ten pounds and are
large enough for use in forty days
from planting.
Berries, Jules Verne's Ever. bearing
Columbian blackberry, which grows
to the height of ten feet, perfectly
hardy, and bears fruit for years; many
Of the berries are five isches long and
three inches in diameter, and are ripe
from June until frost.
The new Arctic King gooseberry.
reaching eight fees 10 height anc
bearing berries the size OF large an
plies, yielding from ten to twelve
UuSuels 10 edcn Tree.
The Greenlandic Mammoth rasp-
berry which produces fruit two to
three inches In diameter. A single
bush will furnish all a large family
needs from June l until winter.
The most wonderful improvement
was in the strawberry. Among the
hundreds Of varieties was the NAM
moth Columbian which grew mon
strous plants from three to four feet
high, the berries like beef steak. are
sliced of and sold by the pound.
Single berries weighing from 10 To Is
pounds and the yield per acre is i'm
mense as each plant produces from
1000 to 1000 berries, being eyerbear-
ing, from May until winter.
. A new banana and grape are prize