Show S tHE L FARM FARM THE TH THE ESTEEMED Philadelphia 1 t er fir believes that the age ase of elec else has not quite arrived for the husbandman it says that the automo automobile automobile automobile bile plow ploy th gigantic gt cut bind thresh and measure the th wheat in one continuous operation the traction machines which d the th work of ninny many the hay loaders the th mechanical m and 1 the end variety of ingenious and costly p which now n w beckon to the Ue farmer and assault his pocketbook mai ma mahave have led him to think that perhaps the tile limit has hu been reached for he has no hope Op that the greatest genius will he bo heable able tle t to produce an electrical farm farni farmhand heed hand which is his hie greatest need Not N t wo so the farmer Lanner of the Ute future future if It enthusiasts smote say true may be independent even of toe the sun he may stand at his hie switchboard in the farm offices and throw out the electricity to the pota potatoes toes semi senj along a tI generous to I the beans electrify the Ue cabbages b ases and wake them up up to their duty and aDd send senda a vivifying thrill thrift through the he homely but hygienic beet beetA heet A Belgian BeJ ian scientist t Professor Profesor Gua Qua Guarini Guarini rini sa says B that electricity iff 18 1 the life bre of or plants This electricity is supplied In Inthe Inthe Inthe the atmosphere atmo but sometime the thc supply is not generous er eaf nuj i I It is io a mistake to think he ne s That light alone Io will m nourish plants Scientists have shown howD these the forty j yer that ar artificial light lI ht is a great stimulus to t plant life and anel that if electric light be ap applied applied applied plied at night in the right strength str and amI andlor fir lor the right t length J th ot of time the results r in larger and more mere vigorous crops crone and plants nta pJ wH win be very v ry startling Professor Prole sor Guarini snows shows alto In hi a 8 simple experiment that at t It is n net t Ute too light alone which does dean Use the work it is the electric radia radiation radiation tion combined with ith the light It ht whether the electric radiation come from the sun PUB and am its rays or oi from the arc are tamp lamp lampHe He surrounds a plant pInt for instance with a metal rage cage through which tile t sunlight streams freely b but t the Ute cage acts as u a conductor for the atmospheric electricity and behold the plant with withers ers era and becomes anaemic On Oft the tM other hand conclaves the Ute Ledger a plant may be e put pat in the thed Backhand d then given intelligent elec dee electrical treatment The professor recommends re om mends the use of or the high h tension con continuous continuous current whid our farmers perhaps would nice to Know may be obtained Ute the t most m t economically and from rn three dynamos each capable of 0 giving vin a current of ZOO volts tile the three to be coupled together so that Ute tile maximum lD um current of volts may be b sent nt out to the vegetables By this the carbonic acid in inthe inthe the is decomposed producIng producIng Ing carbon and ami oxygen o sen the chemicals in the te soil are also decomposed decompo ed and the Ute nourishing elements rush to 10 the ai Of tie the plant By B thiS this method m hod many mans m nt nto s o 4 could be bo PA and the expenditure on a large opera operation ties tion would in time be e justified ju ed In a where wh e the condition condItions are just right for the tile control and expendi expenditure ture e ef Ute the electrical energy energy without w wastage ge in the th open n air ak there is ll ac according according according cording to the tile processor pro no doubt d of suo is We cite these scientific c experiments in Order older to keep keet of f scientific endeavor but we e do da it Timorously be beean canes ean when the farmers hear of Pro Professor fessor f Guarini and his Ms volts WIts they will win nave bave something g harsh Barsh to say about this scientific farming It |