Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1901 — His Wonderful “Potatoe.” [ARTICLE]

His Wonderful “Potatoe.”

An interesting agricultural item Is reprinted in the London Times from its issue of Oct. 10, 1801: “A Mr. Vacher of Heckford farm, near Poole, last year planted one potatoe, which produced him 335 in number, and there would have been still more, had not a boy lost one of the eyes after the potatoe was cut in pieces. The farmer, having saved the whole of them, had them planted, which he has now dug up, and finds that they have multiplied to the number of 9,238, and weigh 13 cwt. 3 qrs., which certainly Is a very great increase from one single root in two years.”