ELECTRICAL INFLUENCE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10152, 23 December 1910, Page 5

ELECTRICAL INFLUENCE

ON ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE LIFE.

The San Francisco Chronicle of September 29th contains the following : 'According to Professor Silas Wentworth, of Los Gatos, his experiments with electric influence on animal and vegetable life, at his ex.perimentl farm on the Tyler-place, near Roseville, during the past year', have proved that electricity will more than double the lamb crop, and greatly increase the yield of wool. A band of 2000 sheep was divided, one half being placed in a field under the power wires of the Great Western Power Company, while the others were kept away from electric influences.

"In the field under the electric power line the production. of lambs averaged a fraction over two lambs to each ewe. Similar differences were noted in the yeild of wool from the sheep in the different fields. The fleeces from the sheep in the electric influenced field proved 20 per cent, heavier.

"Preparations are now being made to plough up both fields, and plantwheat. The power company will be asked' to extend the power lines throughout the entire Tyler field that the influence of the electric current may be increased. Professor Weutworth believes that the yield of the Tyler field will be over' 100 per cent, heavier than in the adjoining field."