Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1885 — Nature’s Invisible Workers. [ARTICLE]

Nature’s Invisible Workers.

Microscopic organisms not only destroy the plant and animal forms familiar to us, but they appear also to build up such forms, and to be necessary to their very existence. A Frenoh biologist, Mons. Duclanx, has just made some experiments which tend to prove that plants will not germinate unless microbes exist in the soil; and Pastettr had already been led to the conclusion that microbes are essential to animal life, as digestion cannot be performed unless they are present.