Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1920 — Plant's Name Significant. [ARTICLE]

Plant's Name Significant.

The speiMOg of Mangel-Wpraei is a question which appears capable of being settled in different ways. What la really interesting about the word Is the fact that its name was altered from Runkelruben by the German people. At a time of famine Runkelruben saved 'the people from starvation, and was far ttok raatoh giv^-;. the new name of Mangel-Wursei, literaHy‘“fatuine root.” The plant stood the Germans in good stead during the latter days of the recent war, thus onee more earning its sobriquet, by which it is known everywhere in England.—Chrtstiau Betonce Monitor.