# @farmcredit on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/5x829aH-EG
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/14855276-farmcredit-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/fbbab0642d.jpg
- **Posted:** 2015-07-31T00:31:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Farm Credit System (@farmcredit) — https://gondola.cc/farmcredit

## Caption

#TBT: This Monday celebrate #NationalWatermelonDay by cutting into the biggest watermelon you can find. Odds are it will not measure up to this record-setting fruit, grown by Oscar Middlebrooks of Patmos, Arkansas. In this 1935 photo, Middlebrooks poses with the champion melon, sold for $100 to actor and Arkansas native Dick Powell. Middlebrooks was a member of the Nashville Production Credit Association. His watermelon record remained unbroken for 44 years. Today, Farm Credit of Western Arkansas serves Hempstead County. #FarmCredit100

Source: St. Louis Farm Credit Administration Record (January-February 1936)

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nationalwatermelonday, tbt, farmcredit100

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