COBB'S DISEASE OF SUGAR-CANE. 



LITERATURE. 



1869. DRANBRT, FRIEDR. M. Bericht uber die Krank- 

 heit des Zuckerrohrcs. Zcitschrift fur Para- 

 sitenkunde, Bd. I, pp. 13-17, and Tafel u, 

 Jena, 1869. 



1869. DRANBRT, F. M. Wciterc Nottzen uber die 

 Krankheit des Zuckerrohrs. Zeitschrift fur 

 Parasitenkunde, Bd. I, p. 212, and Tafel iv, 

 fig. 58, 1869. 



1893. COBB, N. A. Gumming of cane. Dept. Agric., 

 N. S. W. 1893, pp. 8-10. Reprinted in Kew 

 Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, No. 85, 

 Jan. 1894, pp. 1-4. 



1893. COBB, N. A. Plant diseases and their remedies. 



Diseases of sugar-cane. I. Microbe diseases 

 of the sugar-cane ; Gumming of cane (Bacillus 

 vascularum). Agric. Gazette of New South 

 Wales. Sydney, vol. iv, part 10, Oct. 1893, 

 PP- 777-798, with 14 figures. 

 Also a reprint, 8vo, 56 pp. 



The two half-tone figures from photomicrographs illustrating 

 crors sections of portions of diseased canes are reproduced so 

 badly that the presence of the bacteria can not be made out. 



1894. ANONYMOUS. Cane disease in Pernambuco. 



The Sugar Cane. Manchester, 1 894, vol. xxvi, 

 PP 377-379- 



1894. EDITORIAL. The Sugar Cane Manchester, 1894, 

 vol. xxvi, p. 505. 



The insults the scientific man must sometimes endure from 

 the io-called "practical man" arc well illustrated in the fol- 

 lowing citation : 



"The peculiarity of the disease here referred to in attacking the 

 fibro-vascular bundles Is characteristic also of the disease known 

 u "gumming ' (described by Dr. Cobb) in New South Wales, 

 and of the "gomziekte" (described by Kriiger, Janse. ft al.) in 

 Java. The disease is not new. But bow does it arise? We 

 notice that an editorial in the Revue Agricole. of Mauritius, 

 mentions that the bacillus is known. This statement, to often 

 made respecting diseases in men, animals, and plants, seems to 

 partake somewhat of the nature of a solemn joke. Of how 

 many diseases can it be said that the knowledge of the bacillus 

 has led to the cure of the disease, or even that the bacillus causes 

 the disease? Up to now whatever kills the bacillus kills the 

 patient also. It is high time for scientists to get off the stilts of 

 mere technical assertion, and find us a remedy for disease, 

 whether they can find a bacillus or not." 



1894. PALMARES. Cane disease in Pernambuco. 

 The Sugar Cane. Manchester, 1 894, vol. xxvi, 

 P- 555- 



1894. Hi IN AM I-:, PH. Rapport sur la maladie de la 



canne. Revue Agricole et Journal de la 

 Chambre d'Agriculture de 1'ile Maurice, 8 ann. 

 No. 8, Aoiit, 1894. Port Louis, Maurice, pp. 

 178-187. 



A translation of this paper may be found in The Sugar 

 Cane, Manchester. England, vol. xxvi, 1804. pp. 389-593 

 and 621-625. 



1895. COBB, N. A. The cause of gumming in sugar- 



cane. Agric. Gazette of New South Wales, 

 Sydney, vol. vi, part 10, Oct. 1895, pp. 683- 

 689, with two figures. 



TRVON, HENRY. Gumming of cane; being a 

 report of an inquiry into the origin and nature 

 of a disease affecting the sugar-cane in the 

 Wide Bay and Burnett districts. Annual 

 Report Dept. Agric. (Queensland) for 1894- 

 Brisbane, 1895. Paged separately, pp. 



1895. 



1898. WAKKBR. J. H., and WBNT, F. A. F. C. Die 

 Ziekten van bet Suikerriet op Java. Dcel i, 

 Ziekten, die niet door Dieren veroorzaakt 

 worden. Mit 25 Tafeln, Leiden, 1898. 



1898 (?). DODSON, W. R. Bacteriological notes on 

 "red cane, " in "sugar cane, " etc., by Win. C. 

 Stubbs, vol. i, State Bureau of Agric. and Im- 

 migration, La. No date, but a copy was re- 

 ceived at the U. S. Dept. of Agric., Feb. 14, 

 1898, pp. 173-178. 



Author thinks one or more bacterial forms always accompany 

 red cane, but can not be said to have proved his case. Paper 

 has no special relation to Cobb'i disease. 



1898. RACIBORSKI, M. Voorloopige Mededeelingcn 

 omtrent eenige Rietziekten. Overgedruckt 

 uit het" Archief voor de Java-Suikerindustrie, 

 Kagok Tegal, 1898. 



1900. WENT. Krankheiten des Zuckerrohres. Verb. 



vom Pariser Kongress, Juli, 1900. cf. Zeit- 

 schr. f. Pflanzenkr., 1901, p. 297. 



1901. SMITH, ERWIN F. The cultural characters of 



Ps. hyacinlhi, etc. Bulletin 28, Div. Veg. 

 Phys. and Path., U. S. Dept. Agric., Aug. 6, 

 1901, p. 153. 



Name of organism changed to Pseudomonas rasculantm, on 

 account of polar flagcllum. 



1902. SMITH, R. GRBIG. The gummosis of the sugar- 



cane (Bacterium vascularum Cobb). Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. N. S. W., 1902, part i, Apr. 30, 2 

 plates, pp. 31-47. Issued Aug. 22, 1902. 



Also a separate. See also Centr. f. Bake., Me. Abt . ix Bd., 

 looi, pp. 805 and 806. which adds nothing to the preceding. 



1904. SMITH, R. GRBIG. The red string of the sugar- 

 cane (Bacillus pseudarabinus n. sp.). Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. N. S. W., 1904, vol. xxix, part 3, 

 No. 115, issued December 16, 1904, pp. 449- 

 459. Sydney, N. S. W. 



1904. SMITH, ERWIN F. Ursache der Cobb'schen 

 Krankheit des Zuckerrohrs. Centralb. f. Bakt ., 

 2 Abt., xiii Bd., 1904, pp. 729-736. 



Also a separate. For an English translation of this paper see 

 pp. 1 2 to 22 of the next reference, :'. <.. Cobb's third report. 



1005. COBB, N. A. Third report on gumming of the 

 sugar-cane. Div. of Pathology and Physiol- 

 ogy, bull. No. 3, Exp. Sta., of the Hawaiian 

 Sugar Planters' Association. Honolulu, Ha- 

 waii, 1905, pp. 46, 12 ills. 



