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After trying 224 chemicals, Dr. Frank Earl Denny discovered that potatoes treated with ethylene chlorohydrin vapor flung up 2-ft. vines and began to bear before untreated potatoes showed above ground. Now Southern potato growers using this medication on hardy plants from the North can collect two crops a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Plantarium | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

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