TY - JOUR T1 - AGricultural bacteriology. Y1 - 1909/11/27 N1 - 10.1001/jama.1909.02550220069032 JO - Journal of the American Medical Association SP - 1857 EP - 1857 VL - LIII IS - 22 N2 - The second edition of this well-known work has been revised and somewhat enlarged, but the general treatment has not been materially altered. Many interesting topics are discussed and the book contains information likely to be of a good deal of value to the scientific farmer. The style of writing is on the whole clear, but embellished by too many expressions such as "the disease side of the bacteria story," page 3, and "a little thought will show us," page 55. Not a few errors of fact have crept into the text, as, for example, the statement on page 130 that the presence of B. coli in a sample of water "indicates a certainty of danger." Again on page 282 we are told that the spores of the anthrax bacillus will "resist a temperature of about 280 degrees F. for two or three hours." The book, however, is likely to hold SN - 0002-9955 M3 - doi: 10.1001/jama.1909.02550220069032 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02550220069032 ER -