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Title: Marvels of the new West : a vivid portrayal of the stupendous marvels in the vast wonderland west of the Missouri River : comprising marvels of nature, marvels of race, marvels of enterprise, marvels of mining, marvels of stock-raising, and marvels of agriculture, graphically and truthfully described
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Thayer, William Makepeace, 1820-1898
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Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : Henry Bill Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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to ten tons per acre for the season. In Placer Co., Cal., is an orange cling peach tree grown from adormant bud, one years growth, with stem an inch and a half indiameter, and standing thirteen feet high. Also, a late Octoberpeach grown in the same manner from bud this season, standingtwelve feet high. Messrs. Mitchell and McGindley exhibit a turnip which weighstwenty-one pounds, and measures two feet and three inches incircumference. The largest squash ever raised in western Colorado was producedthe past season on North Fork, in Delta Co. Its weight was 168pounds. Mr. P., a neighbor about a mile and a half from the ranch, hadplanted, in soil turned that year for the first time, part of one ear ofpop-corn from which he raised a crop that filled two barrels. Asingle kernel fell by accident into a potato hill about sixty feetdistant from where the rest was planted, and produced a stock fromwiiich were picked seventeen ears of corn, on which, by actual count, 632 MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST.
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MILLET —SIX WEEKS GROWTH there were found sixthousand five kimdredand cigJitccji kernels. A Colorado farmerwrites : * I raised threewagon loads of squash-es on one-twelfth of anacre. From my own gar-den I raised 2,240 bush-els of beets per acre.Also, 80 bushels ofbeans per acre. From 1,000 to1,200 bushels of pars-nips per acre may beraised. I have themtwo and a half feetlong. California sent tothe grand exposition atNew Orleans, in 1885,a squash three feetlong and two feet indiameter, weighing 165pounds ; early rose po-tatoes nine inches longand four in short diam-eter, weighing fromtwo to three poundseach; a watermelonthree feet long and twofeet in diameter ; beetsweighing forty poundsapiece, cabbages sixtypounds each, andpeaches so large in sizethat four average onesweighed three pounds. The Denver expo-sition shows a cabbage MARVELS OF AGRICULTURE. 633 weighing eighty pounds, a pumpkin two hundred and twenty pounds,parsnips three feet long weighing twenty pounds, a beet sixty pou

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