LECTURE ON ELECTROCULTURE.

Hutt News, Volume 6, Issue 6, 17 June 1927, Page 2

LECTURE ON ELECTROCULTURE.

Mr. F. A. Hamilton, the Nelson and Wellington district agent for "Christoflean Process of Electroculture," delivered a very interesting address to members of the Hutt Valley Horticultural Society last Friday evening. The inventor of this wonderful process, which is described as the "dawn of a new era," is Mons. Justin Christofleai,, a French scientist, who did wonderful service for his country during the Great War, by his astounding inventions in connection with warfare in its many phases. This truly great man effected wonderful improvements in long-range guns, submarines, and aircraft. He, it was, who discovered the uncanny possibility of controlling these deadly weapons of war by wireless. The war being over, he turned his remarkable genius to peaceful pursuits for the benefit of all mankind, and literally converted his swords into plough-sheaves. The lecturer spoke at length of the marvellous results achieved in capturing the superabundant forces of nature, to be used for the purpose of intensifying production and increasing crops to remarkable proportions. The system is one by which the magnetism of the land, telluric currents, electricity of the air, and that carried by the clouds, the sun, the wind. The rain and the frost are captured and converted into energetic electricity, and transmitted to the soil in a gradual and constant manner, where it is absorbed by the plant life, and growth and production are stimulated to an almost incredible extent. Mr. Hamilton exhibited a specimen of the machine which makes it possible for the ordinary layman to profit by this remarkable invention of the age at a price within the realm of all. The lecturer was so convincing in his arguments that several market gardeners, alive to the great possibilities, are having machines installed on their holdings. To give only one of the many experiments that have been tried. A box was filled with gravel which had previously been washed of all soil. Seeds of oats, wheat, peas, and beans were sown. The system of electroculture was applied to it and the usual water-

ing given.' In four days the seed germinated, and four weeks later the beans and peas were bearing profusely. In two months the oats and wheat had grown to a prodigious height and had well-filled ears. The system further does away with the necessity.of using manures or topdressings to the soil. Remarkable cures are being effected in human tion, paralysis, leprosy, asthma and pulmonary complaints being only a few of them. The audience were extremely interested in the lecturer's remarks and asked a number of questions. Mr. Maurice Denniston presided, and moved a cordial vote of thanks to Mr. Hamilton for his interesting address.