. Agriculture for beginners. etimes, when the skin of a rotten apple has beenbroken, you will find in the broken place a blue mold. Itwas the mold that caused the apple to decay. This moldis a living plant; very small, to be sure, but neverthelessa plant. Let us learn a little about molds, in order thatwe may better understandour apple and potato rots aswell as other plant diseases. If you cut a lemon andlet it stand for a day or two,there will probably appeara blue moldlike that youhave seen onthe surface ofcanned alsosometimeshas this bluemold; at othertimes it has a black mold,
. Agriculture for beginners. etimes, when the skin of a rotten apple has beenbroken, you will find in the broken place a blue mold. Itwas the mold that caused the apple to decay. This moldis a living plant; very small, to be sure, but neverthelessa plant. Let us learn a little about molds, in order thatwe may better understandour apple and potato rots aswell as other plant diseases. If you cut a lemon andlet it stand for a day or two,there will probably appeara blue moldlike that youhave seen onthe surface ofcanned alsosometimeshas this bluemold; at othertimes it has a black mold, and again a pink or yellow mold. These and all other molds are living plants. Instead ofseeds they produce many very small bodies that serve thepurpose of seeds and reproduce the mold. These are calledspores. Fig. %2 shows how they are borne on the parentplant. It is also of great importance to decide whether by keep-ing the spores away we may prevent mold. Possibly thisexperiment will help us. Moisten a piece of bread, then.
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