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Show JILECTR1FEID GRAIX That science Isn't loafing on the job as far as agriculture concerned is evidenced by reports from Alberta, where grain growers have been watching for several months the result of 'xperiments with "electrified seed." According to the latest reports the harve&t from seed treated by this new discovery promises to be of suffciceut proportions to attract the immediate immed-iate interest of all farmers in all section of the United States, and we feel sure rural residents in the neighborheed of Delta will want to learn all they can about the subject. The process consists in placing the seed In a bath containing con-taining metallic salt, such as calcium or sodium chloride, and weekly electrifying the liquid. After the electric current has played over the grain to be planted for a certain fixed time, the solution is drained off and the seed dried. The object of the salt, it is said, is not only to decrease ihe resistance of the seed coat, but to maintain conductivity during the period of germination. germi-nation. Calcium and sodium chloride in the correct proportions, propor-tions, it Is declared, stimulate growth and give strength to the new roots, The new process has created wide-spread interest among farmers of southwestern Canada, and many of the largest wheat growers of that section have sowed hundreds of acres this year with electrified seed. They claim the result i3 wonderful, won-derful, and that equal success could be had (n sowing corn or other grain so treated. |