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Show About the I'otato. Recent experiments show that potatoes po-tatoes contain a poison known as solanin. New potatoes contain, comparatively com-paratively little of this poison unless i they grow above the surface of tho : ground and have a green skin. Gard- I enera should, therefore, be careful to thoroughly earth-up potato-rows. Old potatoes contain much more of I this poisonous principle solanin, and many cases of serious poisoning have j occurred in the late summer when old i potatoes were used. j In 1892 and 1893 there was almost wholesale poisoning among the troops i of the German" army. In, this case I it was found that in old potatoes kepi j in a damp place and beginning to sprout there was 24 times as much I solanin as in new potatoes.Tit-Blts. |