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6. Cellulose agar. 
Water .. ate oe - 100 c.c. : 
Cellulose( Pure)  .. “2 1 grm. 
Nutrient solution as for starch agar Sa 100 c.c. 
Agar ee ee oe 52 2 grm. 
7. Potato juice agar. 
75 grammes of potato were cooked in a water bath for half an hour and the 
juice was filtered in a fine cloth, and to it was added 5 grammes of agar 
and sufficient water to make the whole 250 c.c. 
8. Thaxter’s hard potato agar. 
125 grammes of sliced potato were cooked for half an hour in 500 c.c. of water. 
It was filtered in a fine cloth, and water was added to restore the original 
volume. To this was added 10 grammes of glucose and 15 grammes 
of agar and boiled for two hours, cleared, filtered and autoclaved. ~- 
_ 9. Jowar (Andropogon Sorghum) agar. 
One ounce of jowar seeds were powdered and boued in 150 c.c. of water for two 
hours. The boiled mixture was filtered in a wire gauze strainer and 
to it 75 grm. of agar added and sufficient water to make the total 
500 c.c. 
10. Oat meal agar. 
15 grammes of quaker oat meal were mixed in 200 c.c. of water and boiled. 
Filtered in cloth, squeezed out the content and to it 2 grammes of agar 
added. 
11. French-bean agar (50-10-5090 ). 
50 grammes of powdered French-bean were boiled in water for one hour, 
filtered with wire gauze strainer and 10 grammes of agar added and 
water sufficient to make the total 500 c.c. 
12. Corn meal agar. 
13. Wheat meal agar. 
14. Rice meal agar. 
15. Barley meal agar. 
All these were prepared as French-bean agar. 
16. Jowar leaf juice agar (30-3200). 
30 grammes of leaves of Andropogon Sorghum were boiled for one hour in a 
water cooker. Filtered in a cloth and to it 3 grammes of agar added 
and water enough to make it to 200 c.c. 
17. Maize leaf agar. 
It was prepared as the Bhat medium, only, in place of jowar leaves, Zea 
Mays leaves were used. 
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