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* i II r* j n d I i h ill.Tlic Brooklyn expert wuh crossexamined at length by Webater Achey, member of counsel for the defenseroClt;MSi| HiCnder direct examination fir. Gager (J1j* was questioned by Thomas Ross,; j(1plaintiff counMel as to whether other■ canseH might have contributed to the1 damage suffered by the Darlington1 green houses. i h(‘ Ah to carbon monoxide gas tromijj «| coal in tlit* boiler room of the plant,1 it would have l**en necessary for a i u,• great quantity to escape to injure the !t flowers, Dr. (lager testified, “In fact it would have to be a quantity that would be detrimental to the health of!(dt'poila1 those working in the green houses, s ( s “As to the odor of ammonia from s ' the manure pit, that would not injure j j( the piants. It would be absurd to say n] that any of the injuries complained of j ^ by the plaintiff and deseriied by bimj in the first day of the trial, would be caused by ammonia from bis manure jf. pit.“1 cannot conceive of any other jN cause but illuminating gas causingi£ rlt;rthis condition of plants.’ ^Dr Gager then stated that the!^amount of ethyline necessary to cause:.| * *-I damage to plants has been flxf-d by ythe chief expert witness for the de-,fense. Dr William Crocker, director of HII the Boyce-Thompson Institute for, (J f‘ Riant Research, Yonkers, N. Y. who'will he railed by the defense v“Dr. Crocker has written books on t r 3 the subject. Dr. (lager continued,i.and he himself states that one part tojj, ,e 1,000,000 of ethyline in gas will dam-,e age buds; one part in 2,000.000 will; a H cause flowers to ‘go to sleep’; oneL 18 part in 40,000 will prevent buds from v opening properly*J' “But from a previous expert on gas a* who testified for the plaintiff today, ;it and who said that it was impossible to ,r tell how much ethyline is needed to destroy plants, I cannot say now for P' sure just whether Dr. Crocker or the lt- other expert is right I do know that °* it takes about one part in 400 to detect the odor. ( !nt Dr. Gager stated that the reaction of aI1 sweet peas in the Darlington green j house to illuminating gas would be to, al shorten the stem and cause them to °* fall over and lose leaves, he “The best known method to detect j on the presence of illuminating gas is by(Continued on Page 3t♦
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Bristol Courier
Bristol, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Mar 27, 1930
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