Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1892 — What Bacteria Are. [ARTICLE]

What Bacteria Are.

Bacteria are simply microscopic plants, the smallest form of vegetable life. In some instances they are so small that it would be necessary to place 15,000 of them end to end in order to make a row an inch in length. They are of widely different forms, some round, some oval, some fiat or rod-shaped, while still another class are the exact counterparts

of small cork-screws. In all cases they are so minute that one needs a powerful microscope in order to study them, and in no case can they be perceived simply with the naked eye. Whon countless millions .are grou ed to gether they may probably be seen, but iu this oase they may be said to resemble an approaching army, of which we are totally unable to distinguish a single soldier. —[St. Louis Republic.