The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-10-18


dried 90, ana revived IN n IIauid me.
dunn nf Moore also discovered that
/ by usinf some absorbent. like cotton.
smell piece ~ witch win soak w
millions 10 the ofe1nisms ana then by
/ allowing those tuiiuIe. t1 become dfy,
I The bacteria con boz cent 90 hhy phft
Z uf tho world ani yti arrive in perfect
condition
Naturally pf Moore patented hs
discovery. but then ht dld very un-
usual thing h. decided the patent 10
the Department ~ Agriculture in trust
! Tor the American people To be sure,
his discovery had been made 10 the
government laboratories, but the Eov-
eminent. neither morally nor legally,
could claim any share in the discov-
cry. II was indisputably his. DR.
Moore gave the patent to the people In
order that all might have the free use
OF ~. Doubtless he could have made
generous fortune II he had formed
company and exploited the patent
as the German company made n good
profit from their unreliable Nitragin,
which they sold at a dollar a bottle.
4 simple method ~ distributing the
germs that bring fertility having thus
been found, the announcement was
made that the Department of Agricul-
ture was prepared to send applicants
free of charge enough inoculating ma
terial for several acres.
A portion of inoculating material as
It is mailed to the farmer by the govern
ment consists of three different pack
ages. Package No. . contains the cot
ton with its millions of dried germs.
Packages / and are the media or food
by means of which the farmer can
multiply the germs. The department
inclose explicit instructions how to use
the bacteria, as follows:
DIRECTIONS FOR USING INOCULA-
TING MATERIAL.
(Method patented in order to guarantee
the privilege of use by the public. Let
tiers Patent No. 1858 granted March
%, 19Oi)
Put one gallon of clean water (per-
ferably rain water) in a clean tub or
bucket and add No. l of the inclosed
package of salts containing graduated
sugar, potassium phosphate, and mag
nessium sulphate). Stir occasionally
until all Is dissolved.
Carefully open package No. (con-
tanning bacteria) and drop the inclosed
cotton into the solution. Cover the
tub with paper to protect from dust,
and set aside in "A warm place for
twenty -four hours. Do not heat the So
luton or you will kill the bacteria-it
should never be warmer than blood
heat.
After twenty four hours add the con-
tents of package No. containing am
1nonium phosphate). Within twenty
hours more the solution will have a
cloudy appearance and is ready for use.
To Inoculate Seed:
Take just enough of the solution to
thoroughly moisten the seed. Stir
thoroughly so that all the seeds are
touched by the solution. Spread out
the seeds in a shady place until they
are perfectly dry, and plant at the
usual time just as you would untreated
seed. The dry cultures as sent from
the laboratory will keep for several
months. Do not prepare the liquid Gull
ture more than two or three days pre-
vious to the time when the seeds are
to be treated, as the solution once made
up must usually be used at the end of
forty-eight hours.
To Inoculate Soil:
Take enough dry earth so that the
solution will merely moisten it. Mix
thoroughly, so that all the particles
of soil are moistened. Thoroughly mix
this earth with four or five times as
much, say half wagon-load. Spread
this inoculated soil thinly and evenly
over the field exactly as if spreading
fertilizer. This should be done just be-
fore blowing, or else the inoculated soil
should be narrowed in Immediately.
Either of the above methods may be
used, as may be most convenient.
Enough germs are sent in each little
package to inoculate seeds for from one
to four acres. The package can be
carried in your pocket, and yet does
more work than several cart-loads of
fertilizer. 1t costs the government less
than four cents a cake, or less than
cent an acre, and saves the farmer
thirty or forty dollars, which he would
have to spend for an equal amount
of fertilizer. Different cultures are
sent for different crops.
The results have been surprising. If
Nautilus were living, he would have to
revise his calculation of the time when
the world will be so crammed with peo-
pie that It cannot feed them.
Even more startling than this is
comparison of the actual fig
ures of yield of two crops grown on
exactly the same land, but one of ino-
culated and the other of uninoculateu
seeds. Two patches of hairy vetch,
grown side by side under precisely the
same conditions, yielded crops as fol-
lows; uninocuated patch, ISL pounds;
noculated patch. 1901 pounds-an in
crease of more than eight times. Grim
son clover under similar conditions
yielded: uninoculated, 372 pound; ino-
culated 1922 pounds-an increase OF
nearly twenty times.
1t does not require a trained scientist
to apply the cultures. The results OBJ
tanned by any intelligent farmer are rs