Donates Papers To UNIVERSITY PARK, (Centre Co.) A man who could easily be described as “the Henry Ford of mushroom science’* has donated part of his personal library to Penn State’s Mushroom Spawn Labora tory, giving the College of Agricul tural Sciences an invaluable histori cal resource for students. James W. Sinden, 92, was a pro fessor of botany at Penn State from 1930 until he resigned in 1952 to work for the Hauser Champignon Laboratorium in Zurich, Switzer land. In 1932, Sinden developed and patented a grain spawn sim ply put, a seeding system to grow mushrooms that revolutionized the mushroom industry. Previously, farmers had grown mushrooms using a manure spawn that was shaped into a brick and dried. Farmers broke off bits of the brick and planted them. The Sinden grain spawn, which used rye grain that had been colonized by mush room fungus, could be sown like seed and covered a much wider area for growth. Sinden used rye because that grain worked better as a vehicle for the mushroom spawn. “The grain spawn improved pro FOLLOW THE LEADER THE BIG DUTCHMAN 4 HIGH LAYER CAGE WITH DROPPING BOARDS IS FAST BECOMING THE MOST ACCEPTED SYSTEM OF ITS KIND. DON’T EXPERIMENT WITH IMITATIONS - BUY BIG DUTCHMAN THE MOST TALKED ABOUT CAGE SYSTEM IN THE INDUSTRY NOW AVAILABLE ONLY THROUGH HERSHEY EQUIPMENT CO. All Decks Feature A Straight Bi Full Top Cage, Not Slanted As Manufacturers. You Get More Decks Giving More Cubic Inchi Wire On Cage Floors, Backs, Partitions Are Double Galvanl; Longer Life. They Are Galvanl Before And After Welding. Oni Dutchman Offers This Feature. Heavy PVC Dropping Board Bi Each Deck For Long Life, Not Which Can Not Be Properly Wi Between Flocks Vertical Inside Edge Of Feed T Against Front Of Cage Acts A! Shield To Keep Eggs Cleaner Special Scraper Channel Deslgi Blade Down For Full Scrape, Y Blade From Jumping Up And Cage Floors. 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Sinden also developed a synthet ic compost in 1948 to replace the horse manure compost then in use and has identified fungicides to treat mushroom diseases. The material Sinden donated to the university generally dates from 1923 to 1952. Such documents as research reports, written lectures, reprints of Sinden’s articles from scholarly journals, photographs and even telegrams arc included. A large percentage of the material is correspondence. “Although he was working in the mushroom industry, he always If It's Worth your Investment, Trust It To Mershey Penn State took a scholarly approach to research, and this correspondence to other scientists and mushroom growers is invaluable to get a his torical perspective on the mush room industry,” Wuest says. Although the information is accessible through Pattee Library at University Park, Sinden asked that the collection be stored injhe mush room spawn lab in 117 Buckhout Laboratory. 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