138,000-volt high-pressure oil-filled cable

✍ Scribed by R.H.O.

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1948
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 72 KB
• Volume: 245
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(48)90135-5

✦ Synopsis

plants were made vulnerable just as a man with scratches on his hands is vulnerable to many disease organisms, such as tularemia of rabbits and man.

Experimenters using a chemical that kills nematodes have increased yields of fiber greatly by ridding the cotton plants of the pests that assist tile wilt, in this case the meadow nematode. After only 8 weeks the plants in fumigated rows were 3 in. taller than the untreated. At harvest there were more bolls, bigger ones, and better lint. Tests on cotton in Alabama showed that even varieties known to be wilt-resistant gave in to it when heavily attacked by nematodes. But when the nematodes were fumigated out, the wilt was cut far down, in some plots almost to the vanishing point. Fumigating with chloropicrin (tear gas) gave similar results on tomatoes suffering from wilt and rootknot nematode attack.

R. H. O.