Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-26

| MUSHROOMS over IT, Leave 1t covered
in the oven five minut,s before sending
to table.-Harper's Bazaar.
A CURIOUS GREENHOUSE.
Valuable Work Done BY the Bures. q
| Vegetable Pathology.
| Probably the most curious greenhouse
in the world is supported at Washington
by the United States Government For
whereas ordinary Conservatives arc
maintained with view to securing
health. this one is kept up for the pur.
pose of propagating diseases in plants
1t is a hospital of all useful things that
| grow from the soil, and the disorders
! from which the patients suffer are iD-
| ficted upon them artificially. in order
that the nature of the complaints may
be aScertained and methods of combat.
ting them discovered.
The Department of Agriculture here
| has dozen agents in various parts Of
the country who do nothing but travel
about and collect specimens of diseased
plants, which are promptly sent to
| Washington with descriptions of the
INJURIES done and the extent of depre-
| dations. Professor Galloway, who has
charge of this work. upon receiving q
twig exhibiting morbid symptoms, starts
in to find out what sort of fungus is
responsi bic for the mischief Very
nearly all disorders of plants are caused
by parasitic fungi, of which there are
$4,000 kinds: so it isn't always easy To
tell off-hand just which one is the des-
troyer. If the latter is not readilye
recognizable by its known effects, thet
germ incubator must be resorted to.
This is hatchery of fungus spores
IA On x,rir i,1o Of
incu bator, but resembling to the eve
outside a miniature furnace Inside
there is a compartment above that is kept
heated by spirit lamp below always 10
the temperature of a hundred and sixty
degrees Fahrenheit. Suppose the Pro
feSSOr has been sent leaf that is af-
fected by mysterious disease, burning
it brown. His experienced eye detects
the fact that it is covered with deadly
fungus of some sort. So he breaks off Q
scrap of the leaf and chops it up in .
saucer of distilled water, and, when he
knows that the water must be filed with
the germ, he takes drop of it and lets it
fall into tube that already contains Q
small quantity of gelatinous substance
derived from a Japanese fish called
''agar" This substance has previously
been rid of all germs by boiling, and IS
is tightly corked up again at once. Co
prevent any other germs from getting
in.
Now, it happens that this agar - most
nutritious and palatable food for the &.
fungus germs, and no sooner is the drop
of water let fall into the tube than the
little spores which cause the disease OF
the leaf begin to feed and multiply. ~
there is only one to begin with, is grows
n in, 70
itself into two whole ones; each OF these
presently divide into two, and so On
until within a few hours there sfe
billions. Still the professor can nos
be absolutely certain that those
are the germs OF the disease
he is trying to find out about save in one
way. He fishes few of them out ON
the end of platinum needle and rubs
them on leaf of the same sort of plant
in his green house. If the disease is ire
produced in the plant thus inoculated.
he has found the enemy. That is the
first important step, it only remains to
discover something that will kill it
Prof. GallowayS Bureau of Vegetable
Pathology has been in operation now fuP
only four years. but it has accomplished
a great deal already. 1t has found out
how to demolish twelve of the fifty
minus VI odu1SSrOUS IuuSl tna6 &Gtdc8
the grape. Likewise cure has been
found for the fire-rot. which turns the
limbs of pear trees black and dead 80
quickly. The germ of potate-rot, ton
has been identified and means found -
fighting it effectively and cheaply. Tho
same may be said of more than q dozen
diseases of other things vegetable. AZ
present attention is being given 60 tho
troubles of the rose, as we'll as to a new
disease which is destroying thousands
Of dollars worth of hollyhecks in north.
ern greenhouses The professor propa-
gates some disease germs 'sfor sheir
beauty, as he expresses it-becausS
colonies OF them in the tubes are bright
red, blue, green and other colorA-St
Louis Globe-Democrat
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