Fisher Family Genealogy
FARRIS, Erma Isabel
1886 - 1966 (79 years)Farris squash vine busts record 1938
"The most exiting thing in Blandinsville this week is a squash vine down at the Erma and Orie Farris home in the south part of town. It was grown by Fred Fisher from seed which weighed a small fraction of an ounce. And it has produced something over 400 pounds of squashes...Fred showed us his vine one morning last week. It covers three square rods of ground, has a parent stalk as big as your arm and leaves that look like palm-leaf fans. It had 33 squashes on it which weighed as much as.60 pounds per squash. Eight of them weighed well over 300, and that's à lot' of squash." Had to say who deserves more credit. Fred planted it, but the vines grew and were probably watered and tended by the Farris sisters. Women in this time rarely get credit for anything.
| Owner of original | Blandinsville Star-Gazette, Blandinsville IL, p 1 |
| Date | 27 Oct 1938 |
| File name | Farris squash vine busts record 1938.png |
| File Size | 764.25k |
| Dimensions | 669 x 1469 |
| Linked to | News articles: Blandinsville Star-Gazette, Blandinsville IL; FARRIS Erma Isabel; FARRIS, Orie May; FISHER, Frederick Austin |