HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING 
PUMPKINS— HOW TO GROW LARGE SPECIMENS 
AND STORING 
W HERE extra large pumpkins are desired for fair or 
exhibition, it pays to prepare a special hill, as fol- 
lows: In good garden soil 5 dig a hole, about two feet deep 
and three feet across. In this put well-rotted manure 
or compost to a depth of eighteen to twenty inches. 
Place a four-inch draintile in upright position in centre 
of this and build the hill of soil on top of the manure, 
around the tile, which will appear like a chimney. 
Sow a dozen seeds around this tile and, in due time, 
reduce the seedlings to the six strongest. Once a week 
pour several buckets of water in this hill through the tile. 
When fruits set, reduce them to two, or even one, per vine. 
All pumpkins are gathered when the frost has killed 
the vines and before hard frosts threaten to injure the 
fruits. Cut them off, with four or five inches of stem at- 
tached, for easy handling. Store in barrels with straw. 
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