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JAMES GORDON HORSFALL
JAMES GORDON HORSFALL
Pages 192-217
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himself a squirt gun botanist, fought the "rusts en c! rots that rob us, the blasts ; tic!
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A pear tree afflicted by fire blight introduced young Horsfall to plant pathology, and he followed the advice to prune it. The stump left after a few years of Draconian treatment encouragec!
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then askocI, "Can you soak tomato semis in a copper sulfate solution en c! control damping off?
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that a mixture of lime and copper sulfate applied to grapes in the Me clo c to discourage pilfering also discourage c! clowny milclew, Bordeaux mixture hac!
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excommuni cation by telling attendees at an inspection of fungicide trials that Bordeaux mixture on potato was a cleat! horse that hac!
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as chief of the Department of Plant Pathology
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a comfortable home at America's first agricultural experiment station, whose founder believecI, "Theory en c! practice must march together."22 In the same year Horsfall sat in a cheap restaurant outsicle Grant!
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Horsfall attributed the failure to degradation of the compounds in the tree plus the lack in plants of the analog of phagocytes to clean up survivors. A consolation to the campaigners was Ainsworth's statement in a history of plant pathology that their unsuccessful attempts to control elm diseases by chemotherapy proviclec!
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Latin squares of treatments in the fielcI, he cleverly testec! fungicides on spiral rows: "The hand-carried spray boom is flexible, the power pump untiring, the circular route of travel saves a return empty trip, en c!
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tissue below 50% en c! the amount of healthy tissue above 50%."35 Decacles later, fearing pathologists were spencling too much time on minutiae while neglecting larger matters, Horsfall wrote, "Many pact arounc!
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van cler Plank to his publisher. The outcome, Plant Disease Epidemics and Controt,39 taught plant pathologists how to interpret the logistic progress of an epidemic in terms of compounc!
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consulting en c! lecturing routine college courses to encourage concentration on research.43 Nevertheless, Horsfall knew people beyonc!
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Kennedy set up a committee to confer with Rachel Carson, he appointee! Horsfall to serve.50 In 1970 Governor John Dempsey of Connecticut selectee!
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B Cowling edited Plant Disease, An Advanced Treatise.54 In the five volumes of the 1977-80 treatise he recurred to his theme of pathometry, indulged his hobby of genealogy, and concluded with a pithy philosophy of plant pathology.
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for a commission on agriculture en c! renewable resources.59 Discerning an excessive emphasis on application cluring hiS early years as a scientific statesman, he urger!
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a commission on agriculture en c! renewable resources of the Academy to perform an investigation of the nation's agricultural production efficiency.
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16. Years later at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Horsfall persuaded his colleague H
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Epilogue: Anent a philosophy of plant pathology. In Plant Disease: An Advanced Treatise, vol.
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When my statistics teacher endorsed this clever design to me (PW) at Iowa State, it inclined me to join the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station when I was given the chance.
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Plant Pathology, An Advanced Treatise, vols.
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Agricultural Production Efficiency. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1975.
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An improved grading system for measuring plant diseases. Phytopathology 35:655.
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Plant Pathology. An Advanced Treatise, 3 vols.
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Plant Disease: An Advanced Treatise, 5 vols. New York: Academic Press.
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