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LETTER EROM ELON BABCOCKHe Sends Some Immense Vegetable* f'rom• . JTort Williams, Canada,Miss Mattie Fry has received a letter from Elon Babcock of the Slate River Valley, Canada, a part of which is here given: 'Dear siBter I send you a box with Mr. Wainright to show you what we raised this year. I would like to have the Rock Falls folks see them and the Standard office. The potatoes were planted on the fifteenth of June and dug from the eighth to the thirteenth of October. The turnips were sown on the twenty-eighth of June. They were pulled to send, the rest are no£ pulled yet.We are invited to a wedding Wednesday, Nov. IT. It is that of John Lamke and Miss Mary Crawford.The weather is lovely here—warm and clear. We were out on your farm today, and we gathered some young trees and other paints and put them in the botf, so you can see some of the things that grow on your farm.Em says I shall tell you that these things grew on new ground. We raised them ourselves. We could get potatoes and Swede tUTnips twice as large as these we sent, but I wanted you to see just what we raised. Love to allElou G. Babcock.West Fort Williams, Canada, Oct. 14.The basket of vegetables are now on exhibition at the office of the Standard The turnips are nearly as large as a man’s head and the potatoes are enormous. Come in and see them.1\
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Sterling Daily Standard
Sterling, Illinois, US
Tue, Nov 20, 1900
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