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A Mushroom Disease. 



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the local authorities will adopt some such arrangement as that 

 above suggested for hearing what the vendor has to say for 

 himself before taking the case into open Court, any legitimate 

 ground of complaint on the part of producers as to the adminis- 

 tration of the law, so far as the adulteration of milk is concerned, 

 will speedily be removed. 



1 am, Sir, 



Your obedient Servant. 



T. H. Elliott, 



Secretary. 



The Aberdeen and North of Scotland College of Agriculture 



have informed the Board that they have now made arrangements 



for the testing of farmers' milk in accord- 



Tests for ance with the conditions described in the 

 Farmers Milk. , r , . .: _ _ .... , 



previous number of this Journal (March, 



1905, p. 743). It is proposed to fix the charge for each sample 

 at 6d., and samples from the counties of Aberdeen, Kincardine, 

 Banff, Elgin, Inverness, and Ross and Cromarty, will be tested 

 at this rate. Samples of milk taken in accordance with the 

 instructions should be addressed to James Hendrich, B.Sc, 

 F.I.C., Marischal College, Aberdeen. 



During certain seasons cultivated mushrooms are destroyed 

 in a wholesale manner by this disease, not merely in this country 

 but also on the Continent ; more especially 

 A Mushroom i n the neighbourhood of Paris, where mush- 

 / u 7, mI room culture is conducted on a very exten- 

 temiciosus ). sive scale. The primary cause of the mischief 

 is a minute parasitic fungus, which when 

 once introduced, spreads very quickly under the conditions of 

 temperature and moisture essential for the rapid growth of 

 mushrooms. Well marked symptoms are evident from the 

 earliest stages of disease, the mycelium of the parasite growing 

 up with that of the mushroom, and the latter, instead of gradu- 

 ally developing into a cap and stem, becomes an irregularly- 

 shaped monstrous soft mass, which if allowed to grow, often 

 exceeds in size that of a full-grown mushroom. Sometimes a 



