SC - Are apricots period: was Period Kinds of apples/Pears

[Lorix]

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999 18:04:20 EDT LrdRas at aol.com writes:
>In a message dated 10/27/99 12:37:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>korrin.daardain at juno.com writes:
><< So if they fertilize a field with fertilizer (cow crap) from 100
infected
> cattle, and that field is used to grow hops and after processing it is
> sold to you for your personal distillation. Your brew is now infected.
>>
>
>Is the disease organism actually absorbed into the hops during growth? 
>Does it survive and reproduce in the hop tissue? Since hops used in
brewing 
>are from the terminal buds of the plant what is the method of conveyance

>from the soil to those plant parts? Salmonella and other nastiness also
survive 
>in the soil but I have never seen any one say not to eat potatoes
because 
>harmful bacteria exists naturally or unnaturally in a soil. Chemicals,
yes, 
>but not disease vectors that occur normally there.
>Ras

Not being a botanist I can't say if it would be in the hops tissues, but
it could get on the outer surface and if not cleaned properly it could
remain infectious for BSE.

Korrin S. DaArdain
Kingdom of An Tir in the Society for Creative Anachronism.
Korrin.DaArdain at Juno.com

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