The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-28
HERE'S ANOTHER LUTHER
BURBANK. ONLY MORE SO

Boston, July 28-Luther Burbank
has rival in Plymouth, Mass. In
fact the famous beanstalk planted
by Jack. which grew overnight. has
been outdistanced by Bernard Field,
of Plymouth, whose secret process of
forcing vegetables life is destined to
revolutionize agriculture, it is
thought in these parts.
Mr. Fields chemical process is be-
ing watched by professors and agri-
culturists. He has perfected his
system after four years of research.
Ut not only causes plants of unusual
size and strength to grow in an
amazingly short time, but his pro-
cess cures disease. healing sick
plants, as a serum does humans.
In his laboratory, Mr.. Field, SUR
rounded by chemical apparatus and
thepowerful microscope, which
causes his cilli-"oscillaria'' is
, the name he gives them-to appear
like immense transparent snakes.
He works hours each day expert
menting still further as to the pos
sibilities of his discovery. But he
has demonstrated it often enough to
prove that his secret process is
worthy of the attention of scientists
! and all interested in the soil and its
products.
Here are some of the things Mr. =.
Field has done:
| Mushrooms grown in sunlight like
! radishes.
Lettuce, big as a mans head
without fertilizer.
Trees, barren for 20 years, have
broken down with fine fruit.
Tobacco, of immense size, grown
without manure.
Trees, seemingly dead, made biz
fruit bearers.
Growth of weeks accomplished il
days.
Mr.. Field Is Roumanian, a grad
uate Of the University of Bucharest
He has spent IS years in chemica
laboratories and is an engineer o
note. Some years ago a large or
chard of his began to retrograde
and the trees failed to bear fruit
Het set to work on some plan whic
would solve vexatious problem.
He had studied fertilizers 70
years, and knew the usual method
of application. He thought thes
methods wrong and began to wor
on theories of his own, concentrat
ing all his time and energy on tina
one idea. The result of his re
: searches wah that he became certai
that a particular bacilli, if given OF
portunity to propagate, could inst
new life into and manifold the a
ready existing life-principle of tn
{ tree. plant or vegetable that Nigh
be the subject of the treatment.
Accordingly. he developed a BIZ
, cilli, and, because of their oscilla'
ing movement, he called them 30:
cillaria." This bacilli-under
microscope that magnifies by Is
diameters-looks very terrible.
. looks good deal like an eel,, onl
it is transparent and has a long car
| al running through it's glistenin
/ body Tt has large head and tai
: and this tail it fastens to the tire
: roots and through it the bacillu
r transmits the nourishment it gather
, in from the soil.
: THE reason why most fertilizer
5 fall" explained Mr.. Field, betwi,
( linnumerable cigarettes, only ha
S smoked, lis that the fertilizer los,
its efficiency Ny method is entir
ly different.
] 81 insist-and this is a most in
portant part of my discovery-th;
v the bacilli shall have suitable Ell
e vironment to insure their increas
: so that, once put into the groun
r they increase double, four-fol
d eight-fold and so on. have take
: earth, treated with the baeilli, ar
K have had it boiled and sterilizs
y otherwise. but the bacilli have r