Placud on a Nation-widi- Basis 203 



Kcilcrman"s work in Kansas "upon smuts and breeding of 

 corn" was regarded in 1891 ■''' "as fnie examples of his many 

 important investigations beyond tlie Missouri." Smith's visit to the 

 Kansas State College and experiment station enabled him to 

 examine some of Kellerman's and Swingle's fungicidal treatments 

 for stinking smut of wheat. In the juunhil of Mycology'-"^ he 

 reviewed their bulletin 12 on their preliminary experiments and 

 said that in the main these were 



a repetition and confirmation of those made in Europe by Jensen, Kiihn, 

 and others. . . . Ihc wisdom of the recent establishment of State experi- 

 ment stations by the General Government, has been called in question in 

 certain quarters. Ne\crthcless, the stations are here to stay, and their 

 public usefulness becomes more and more apparent, especially after reading 

 such a paper as this from the Kansas station. The results are striking 

 and conclusive; and worth more to the wheatgrowers of this country than 

 the cost of all the stations. 



Kansas, however plenteous in some pomological crops, was not 

 regarded as a " ' first class ' peach country though," Kellerman told 

 Smith," "some peaches [were] raised [there] and very many 

 [were] produced in the southern part of the state." That year 

 one T. C. Wells, a Kansan, had sent Smith specimens of peach 

 rosette; and Kellerman and Swingle had carefully examined the 

 diseased orchard materials.'* In reply to a letter from Smith, 

 Kellerman said: 



I cannot think that the peach trees here were affected with " Yellows." 

 Mr. Wells is of the same opinion, though Prof[essor] Burrill, to whom 

 specimens were sent by Secretary Brackett of Lawrence (who received 

 them from Mr. Wells) says the trouble was '" Peach Yellows." Whether 

 he made a careful examination or not I do not know. I had no corre- 

 spondence with him about it. I could not find any "' prematurely ripened 

 and spoiled peaches " though search and inquiry were repeatedly made. 



No root lice had been seen, and Kellerman did not believe that 

 excessively hot weather of itself could account for the trouble. 

 This collaboration might have continued for some time had not, 



^^ B. D. Halsted, What the station botanists are doing, Botanical Gazette 16: 

 288 f., Oct. 1891. 



^^6 (3): 117-118, Jan. 6, 1891. 



" Letter, September 30, 1889. 



^* E. F. Smith, The peach rosette, Jour. Mycology 6 (4): 143-148, Apr. 30, 1891 

 (results of his 1890 investigations in Georgia and Kansas). 



