3 FEBRUARY 1950, Page 14

A Query A quaint question is put to me: Do

hedgehogs eat potatoes ? A gardener who suspected rats found a dead hedgehog, and thereafter no potatoes were eaten. It is one of the odder and least explicable super- stitions that hedgehogs milk cows ; and it is only a very little more likely that they eat potatoes. At any rate potatoes are now safe, for the hedgehog is a very thorough hibernator, even if he should retire to a potato clamp.