Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1886 — Plant Dynamics. [ARTICLE]

Plant Dynamics.

The great force exerted by growing plants may be demonstrated by direct measurement. By an arrangement of harness and levers, President Clarke, of Amherst Agricultural College, made a growing squash register a pressure equal to thousands of pounds, when finally the harness broke. A tree in a graveyard at Hanover, Germany, has lifted more than five inches a block of stone containing twenty cubic inches. Do not laugh at the gentleman with a bare poll, my son. It is not nearly so bad to have a head that is bald on the outside as to have a head that is bald on the inside.