Show GOOD FOR THE CROPS electricity works two new miracles for farmers literary digest reports two new wonders that can be accomplished by electricity it appears that a munich engineer has discovered that if a cur rent of electricity Is sent through the ground it will drive out all the worms and insects that are hiding in the earth it the current is strong it will kill them the discovery was made by acci dent the engineer hugo halberger Hel berger was allowing the electric current to run into the ground when he noticed scores of worms coming hurry scurry out ot the earth as if they were being chased on looking more closely at the ground he noticed that hundreds of smaller worms and insects were running tor their lives away from the deadly current the other discovery has been o 0 also by a german an electrician of darmstadt impossible as it may seem be has succeeded in transform ing air into fertilizing material by means of a large electric sparking machine he mixes the nitrogen from the air with a substance made of lime and carbon so it Is now possible to send an electric current through the soil and free the riots of plants from the worms snails beetles and other in sects that are injurious to the plants it is also possible to feed plants vege tables grain etc with food that Is obtained from the air both these miracles are accod by the same power that causes the lightning which has always been the fanner s terror the electric current which used to be known to the farmer only as an enemy may now be used to free his land from in sect pests and to enrich the soil |