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...Because it is water-repellent and inhospitable to bacteria and fungi, Vinyon hopes to be tops for raincoats, fish lines, fish nets, boat sails, bathing suits...
...years Dr. Kelly has mastered enough hobbies to satisfy half-a-dozen ordinary men. His enormous library contains large sections on Africa, astronomy, bird life, reptiles, fungi, biography and geology. Books litter all his rooms, and jammed in every corner of Dr. Kelly's house are snakeskins, turtle shells, stuffed birds, a duck-billed platypus, buffalo legs. Up to a few years ago Dr. Kelly kept a zoo of 20-odd live snakes in a chamber...
...lectured at a small agricultural college in Kansas, stayed at the house of the college president. One student who listened to him with particularly wide-eyed wonder was the president's son, David Fairchild, who had already resolved to be a botanist, was studying parasitic fungi and the wind-borne movements of Kansas tumbleweed...
Mushrooms, he learned, are fungi developed from spores which float in the air, too small to be seen by the naked eye. By a process still kept secret, he isolated mushroom spores in little bottles where they developed into spawn in a mixture of sifted manure. Nowadays the Jacob laboratories sell these whitish-brown lumps for 50? a quart ready for planting. The Jacob plant gets most of its manure which must be from "horses which are working hard and fed with grain and mixed feeds only," from Philadelphia and Baltimore, pays about $6.50 per ton, uses 20,000 tons...
...Pont has manufactured insecticides (Bordeaux Mixture, Calcium Arsenate, Dutox, Spreader & Sticker, Lime Sulphur Solution) since 1929. Its new laboratory is devoted to war on all sorts of pests- insects, fungi, worms, bacteria, weeds, rodents, marine plants, marine animals- and claims therefore to be unique. On its staff are two plant pathologists, six entomologists, four chemists, some 20 assistants. With an initial investment of $100,000, the laboratory's operating cost is expected to be $125,000 a year. Object is to find new and better insecticides which Du Pont can sell to farmers, nurserymen, fishermen, manufacturers, housewives...