Show electricity TO AID CROPS CROPS scientific gardening produces two batches of lettuce to one ona by daylight larger and better crops of vegetables can bo be produced with the aid of electric lights says a recent report of the international institute of agriculture which describes elpe experiments made in forcing lettuce for the market five electric lamps were so BO arranged oter oer a plot piot of lettuce its is to diffuse fune uniform light the lamps being turned on dally daily for about sit alx hours beginning at dusk after 12 days the lettuce BO 00 treated had two and a halt half aninies As aa many fresh leaves as other heads beads which had been planted at the same rame time but which had bad not been exposed to the electric light the beads of forced lettuce were described in the report as larger and firmer and they realized better prices when sold 0 ld plants exposed only to daylight required froni from tow four to five weeks or double the time to reach this develops develop ment cent so BO that with the use of electric light two crops of lettuce could lie be raised in the time required to raise one under ordinary conditions after seven weeks electrical of 11 lamination a comparison made between the illuminated plants and a similar number of plants not illume illuminated showed bowed a FA CO per rent cent advant advantage ago in a weight in n favor of the former |