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Show TXBJHSQ BY ELECTBICZTY. According to scientific men, who ars callirrg attention to the great Ixneflt of electro-culture, tho farmer of the future fu-ture will bs a highly skilled electrician, who, from a central switchboard at his farm, will direct ths germination and growth of cabbages, carrot potatoes and other crop No longer an Ignorant laborer or mere machine dependent upon up-on the weather, but, like an engine-driver, engine-driver, regulattn; the supply of errM-jry In the form of electric current according accord-ing to certain determined rul, 'he agriculturist ag-riculturist will take hl9 place with ths other largs users of electricity unaer modern condition of life. This is the prospect held out by Belgian Bel-gian scientist. Prof. Gu&rir.J, who has recently been delivering a course of lec-tures lec-tures under Governmer.t sufploes at tha Agricultural Instituted Gembloux , in the relation of electricity to plant lire, which hs states is an electrical phenomenon phenom-enon that can bs regulated at : will. According to Prof. Guarirl the atmospheric atmos-pheric electricity Is essential to plant growths and It Is not electricity that can be substituted for light in certain cases ths accom.P"snnie,u ' th UI,ctlon o chlorophyi. which Is In the decomport-tlon decomport-tlon of carbolio acid" and water, but the. light of the fan of exHric radiation that mar take the place cf purely electrical elec-trical action Harper's Weekly. |