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Show The Potato. In its native country, on the mountains moun-tains of Chile and Peru, writes Jean Ilrnri Fabre, in Field. Forest and Farm, the potato in its wild state is a poor diminutive tuber about as large as a hazelnut. Man takes the worthless worth-less wild stock into his garden, plants it in rich soil, tends it, waters it; and behold, from year to year the potato i thrives more and more, gaining in size j and in nutritive properties, aiv'. finally I becomes a farihncf us ubnr is 'are 1 rs jour two fists. |