Unusual Radio Effects

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 8, 6 September 1929, Page 12

Unusual Radio Effects

CLERGYMAN writes to "Wireless Weekly" mentioning several rather interesting instances of radio’s advent into other fields than mere commercialism. . "We live in an age of marvels," he writes. "Recently an American stated that a cow gave twice as much milk when a radio set. was installed in the outhouses and the set was in action -when the milking was done. An Italjan has also claimed that a dozen hens that were brought up in a pen in which .a wireless set operated all the afternoon, increased their egg production a hundredfold. . "Kor four years I have had a row of chrysanthemums ten,yards in length in my garden. _ Two yards of the row at one end produced much better flowers than the rest of the row the first year, and I wondered why, for no extra manure or care had -been bestowed on that particular spot. The second year I had moved the roots that produced the good blooms to the other tntqupedeupaneasaunast -- =

: \ end, so thet they might get more sunshine, but again it was the same end that produced the blooms that everyone admired, whereas those at the other end were quite ordinary. It dawned on me the third year that my wireless ‘earth’ was buried where the blooms gave such'.satisfaction, and I came to ,the conclusion that the ether waves had something to do with the extra growth and beauty. No gardener who knew something about electricity was able to. assist me very much, so I decided to‘ experiment further. ‘This. year I buried my. earth wire in such a.way that it would affect the whole row of chrysanthemums equally, and I had a. most wonderful show of blooms, One wonders where radio's results will end!"