Show ELECTRICITY AND CROPS Mr Priestly of Bristol university has again drawn attention to the remarkable remarkable remarkable re re- results of the application of high tension electricity to growing crops Not only Is a larger yield obtained obtained obtained ob ob- which is Important to the farmer farm farm- er but In the case of fruit crops such as strawberries the fruit ripens some days earlier a matter of the utmost Importance to the market gardener The present method of electrification Is by means of wires stretched some distance above the growing crops The effects may be described as an intensification Intensification of the action of the thundercloud thundercloud thundercloud thunder thunder- cloud and might be equally startling lo to the heedless investigator The original method of electrification was to water the crops from electrically electrically electric electric- ally charged cans and the the effect ol or orthis this says tho University Correspondent dent was similar to that of the thunder thun hun der shower |