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Show Jj WHAT RADIUM WILL ) !( DO TO WHEAT Bill Rl bjljl If you happen to have any rnditim fljj about tho farm It may bo well to fljll remember Unit a British scientist, I I Js Thome Dale or has found that it h 1 1 may bo used to Incrofiso the yield of II crops. Anyhow ho has found that I when a llttlo ovor a grain of radium III la put in a ton of soil, wheat sown tn It will sprout a week sooner and be six Inches high when the chock plot Is only four inches high. Pretty soon tho roll top desk farmers will be telling us that radium Is a fertilizers fertil-izers but of course it la only a stimulant stimu-lant which enables the crop to take more out of the ground without putting put-ting anything In. In view of the fact that there are only twelve gramB or radium In oxlstenco commercially speaking tho mutter Is not vory Important Im-portant to tho farmer. And yot It must bo romembered that there are considerable nmounts of mineral matter mat-ter which carry very small fiuantltles of radium and ono of these days ngents may bo about tho country trying try-ing to sell it to us for our crops. |
