Show A New Job o For or Electricity I II 4 e eK K e b. ti t h r f r m v aMt k 0 I I I o 6 CITY tireless Urel of or a n modern world has been given another job It la Is being used as 03 a soil soli warmer for growing plan plants Li I If you had asked me mo a halt half dozen years yearn ago what I thought of or orthe the prospects for electric hotbeds II says George W. W Kable director of or orthe the National Rural nural Electric Project In the current Issue of or The he Country Countr Gentleman I probably would have said that tho Idea was wa Interesting theoretically theoretical out hut without any great practical value I would have havo told you that It as v as a n little HUla presumptuous ous ou to expect electricity to compote compete with manure In heating a hotbed But Dut today Mr Kable goes EOS on to explain electric hotbeds are being used with splendid r results by nurserymen nurserymen nurserymen nur nur- and truck farmers r f n. n r m mer e r S throughout the tho country Electricity is proving Itself a n better warming agent than manure and usually Is IB Ismore ismore more more- economical t The most popular and adaptable e. e mall warming equipment Is s a small flexible flexible flex lex- I ible lead-covered lead cable The nurseryman nurI nurseryman nur nur- I simply removes the tho topsoil radiating heat cable and lays tho the j In place doubling It back and aUld forth across the tho bed with the tho strands six or seven inches apart Tho The soil soU 1 Is I then replaced and the hotbed IsI Is la ready for tor use UBe Sometimes a thermostat thermostat ther ther- I Is Installed at tho the edge of ot otI I the bed for automatic temperature control I Since tho the electrical warming of at hotbeds has proved so 50 successful the principle Is rapidly being extended extended extended ex ex- ex- ex tended to other branches of ot plant culture The rhe proximity of or most nurseries to urban centers and the ease with which electric current may be obtained obtained obtained ob ob- from power lines coupled with the decline In rates assure a n. spectacular development In this field Held The Tho Country Gentleman writer b belle believes Tho The magic of ot eleo- eleo Is beginning to serve agri agriculture culture In earnest O 0 0 |