So many unusual and interesting oddities have been reported to the Picton Gazette, that we have decided to inaugurate this column, to appear whenever you report something of interest to us.

We have had a potato growing through a hole in a bone, a cabbage with seven heads on one root, large potatoes, freak shaped potatoes, large ears of corn, tall corn, big fish, large yields of grain, etc., and other interesting “believe it or nots.”

Very Prolific

Here’s something! In the spring of 1933, Mrs. Finley Mark-land purchased a root of dahlias and planted them. They have increased so rapidly that this summer, from the original root, there have come plants bearing over 2,000 blooms. The blooms are very beautiful and one measured over twelve inches in circumference. They are of two shades of yellow, and the Gazette has three of them on display.

864 Kernels

Someone started counting kernels on ears of corn. That interested Garfield Mayne of Mayne Farm, West Lake, and he sent to the Gazette an ear of Comptons Early corn which had 864 kernels. The ear is ten inches long. Beat it?

Roy Lumley of Cressy delivered to a Picton home, a bushel of potatoes which had only sixty potatoes in it. They weighed an average of 1 pound each and were perfectly sound.

Speaking of potatoes, Bert McGinnis and Earl Stevens work a plot together and one potato they left at the Gazette office weighed over one and three-quarter pounds.

43-Pounder

Joseph Simmonds of Massassaga reports a 43-pound sugar beet. It is of the Giant White variety and is a fine specimen.