ELECTRICITY AND PLANTS.
j A cablegram from London last week informed us that Sir Oliver Lodge had stated that the use of electricity in agriculture had resulted in crops treated yielding 40 per cent, better returns. The crops included wheat, mangolds, tomatoes, and raspberry canss. The growth of plants can be stimulated by 1 electric light or by electric currents. At the end of April last "elejtric strawberries" were the dainties of the hour in Paris, the delicacies being obtained at that early date in the season by a method of forcing by electric currents. The fruit were reported to be of good size and excellent flavour. Experiments in America showed that growth could be increased by 55 per cent, by the use of atmospheric electricity drawn to the soil. Experiments with plants and electric light have been going on for some thirty years. According to an article in a recent London paper the light from an electric arc-lamp increases the productiveness of plants in England by from £ to 8J times, according to the time of the year.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9143, 20 July 1908, Page 4
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178ELECTRICITY AND PLANTS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9143, 20 July 1908, Page 4
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