The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-04-26
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"foot rot" Idle back" 'scab," ETC., of the
orange and in 1891 the society petitoned the Sec
rotary of agriculture to have careful investi-
cation made of these and other diseases OF the
orange.
Owing to lack of funds little could be done
till the present fiscal year beginning June 1892.
when small appropriation OF $4,000 was made
available for this purpose.
Previous to this time but little work had been
attempted by the Department OF Agriculture on
these diseases Prof. F. L. Scribner, while in
charge OF the section OF vegetable pathol-
ogy, published a short paper on the 'orange-leaf
scab" Annual report of the Department of
Agr., for year 1885, p 12O. In 1889 Mr.. B. T.
Galloway present chief OF the Division of Vege-
table Pathology published paper on the germ
disease or Foot-rot of the Orange, SUNNI arizing
the investigation made on this disease up to that
date Dull s, Bot Division u. S. Dep. Of Agfi.,
%. 51) In 1891 the first field work was under
taken by the Department of Agriculture on these
diseases Prof l.. NJ. Underwood employed
by the Division of Vegetable Pathology to make
a report on the diseases of the orange.
He spent the months of February, March and
April in Florida making notes on the diseases,
their effects aud symptoms. His report was
ogy, Vol VII, No. l. issued September 10, 1891.
In the latter part OF June, 1891, Mr.. Erwin F.
Smith and one of the writer's sent to the
orange belt of Florida to make further Observa-
tions. Mr. Smith was recalled about the 10th of
July but the investigation was continued during
the SUNNI or till August 18th. Again in 1892 one
of the writer's was sent into the State about
March to continue the observations and rem aimed
inv float innn in
October, 1892
The main result of this field work was to DEM
onstrate the necessity of work on the ground
of trained observers with laboratory and equip
ments actually in the orange region.
In this state of the Investigation the kind offer
of the citizens of Eusts, located in the great
Lake Region in Central Peninsular Florida, to
donate laboratory building and experimental
grounds for the use of the Division of Vegetable
Pathology of the U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture in Investigating the orange and other sub
tropical plants, was, to say the Least very OPP
perfume. In December, 1892. work was begun on
the laboratory and pushed to completion about
January 1, 1898. The necessary books and APP
paratus we're ordered from the department ap-
preparation and have been largely received and
deposited in the laboratory.
able and we'll constructed siX-room building.
There are two private laboratory rooms 16 feet
square, one private laboratory Okla feet; library
16x2O feet; culture room ks feet. Dark room for
Photographic and physiological purposes in each
room, Each private laboratory is further sup
piled with compressed air, which is conducted in
to the rooms by pipes from the blower OF the gas
machine Eustis not being supplied with gas the
necessary gasma chine was purchased as part OF
the equipment OF the laboratory. "a glance at
the plan of the building exhibited will show
something of the arrangement.)
To the north of the laboratory about 60 feet
second small building 7x14 feet has been erected
to serve as general mechanical shop
The apparatus far purchased includes two
of the best Zeiss microscopes with the usual &C
cessores, microtomes, balances, sterilizers, wet
chambers, thermoregulators, thermo meters,
parafine baths, reagents, etc, including the or
binary outfit of modern botanical laboratory
The library at the present time contains about
1900 books and pamphlets largely the private