Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1919 — Potatoes Without Vines Are Grown by Girl [ARTICLE]

Potatoes Without Vines Are Grown by Girl

Kutztown, Pa. —Lizzie, -daughter of Jefferson Hoch, discovered in their potato patch that a number of seed potatoes failed to produce any vines on top of the soil. She was surprised to find the seed potatoes in every hill had clustered around good-sized new potatoes, that the entire vitality of the seed potato .was transferred to the new ones, and that there was no vine growth above the surface of the potato hills. The mother potato was still in the hill, but had given up its substance to the young potatoes, which were already so well matured that they could be u ped for a meal. •