Word: mildew
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...bank counter. A teller smashed them open, found in each pair of neatly glued shells a $5 gold-piece. In Waukesha, Wis., an elderly woman passed a handful of gold-pieces to a bank teller. "They're good," she said. "That's just a little mildew on them. I kept them in a bottle hanging by a string in my well." In Manhattan all one evening the dark cavern of Maiden Lane echoed with unaccustomed footsteps as one after another, clerks, stenographers, women in shawls, fathers carrying children clutching baptismal coins, trudged to the postern of the Federal...
...Department of Agriculture scientists reported progress in their fight against downy mildew, foe of hops. ¶From Chicago's Wahl-Henius Institute were graduated 24 brewmasters, the first class in 17 years. Orated Dr. Max Henius: "Make all efforts to keep the industry on the highest level, free from the fetters of politics and the saloon." ¶By working 24 hours a day a St. Joseph, Mo. factory was turning out ten tons of pretzels per day. Orders were two months behind...
...Weston Jr. '15, Assistant Professor of Botany, to continue an intensive comparative study of a group of parasitic fungi which cause the several downy mildew diseases of important food crops...
Found How Mildew Spread...
...important things which were unknown was how the mildew spread. I found that the spores of the fungus are produced only at night when the leaves of the plant which they infest are covered with dew. At such times the spores are produced in immense numbers and with a fresh breeze sweeping down from the mountains, they are carried all over the country side, so that they often infest a large extent of land in a single night. One of the interesting things about the production of these spores is that they follow a schedule almost as regular as that...