SEQUACHEE VALLEY NEWS — AUGUST 16, 1917
CORN STALKS GROWING 18 FEET 3 INCHES HIGH.
Pikeville, August 13.—Corn stalks 18 feet 3 inches high are reported in Bledsoe county, growing in the local gardens on fertilized ground. A. K. Shoemate, a jeweler at Pikeville, who is also trying to suppress Old High Cost of Living by growing mammoth vegetables, has this size of cornstalk in his garden. What it is in altitude on the richer river bottoms has not been reported yet, but it is bound to be phenomenal.
From— Sequachee Valley News. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.), 16 Aug. 1917. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
