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Www.extremepumpkinstore.com

http://www.organicgardening.com/feature/0,7518,s1-5-16-165,00.html

I guess this is where tales are made......

Strange but true
I found a man out in Prinevill who had established an industry of furnishing pumpkins of a given weight to ambitious farmers who desire to take prizes at the county fairs. How does he grow them? This pumpkin manufacturer feeds the pumpkins milk—just good, rich milk, and when the pumpkin has grown to the weight called for in his order from the ambitious farmer, he cuts it from the vine and turns it over to the one ordering it.

Everyday he fills a quart vessel with milk, places it on the ground, and connects it with a slit in the pumpkin vine with a rubber tube. The vine draws in the milk by capillary or some other attraction. It was extremely interesting to go out in the evening and see the owner feed the pumpkins. The vines had become so used to it, and appeared to like the milk so well, that they actually rustled as the man with the milk approached. And when the milk had been consumed, the vines settled down for the night, as contentedly as a band of cows chewing their cuds.Portland Oregonian, 1899

4/12/2005 9:36:26 AM