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Show SHOCKING THE SOIL Donald Woodward, at Leroy, N. Y., , is experimenting with a plow that ! enriches th earth by plowing into it a high electrical voltage as the plow moves through the field. Hamilton L. Roe, of Pittsburgh, who invented the plow, says the 103,000 volts of electricity that it carries destroys weeds and harmful bacteria, while renewing- the fertility of depleted farm land and producing crops in record time. The tractor that pulls the plow generates electricity sent through steel blades into the earth. ! Many a farmer will be interested in the statement that the use of this plow in a buckwheat fied freed the land of quick-grass and weeds, the buckwheat seed germinated in eighty hours and buckwheat plants grew twice as high as those in one half the field that was plowed without el- ectricity, and fertilized with "200 pounds of fertilizer to the acre." When time and money are applied to agriculture as they are now applied ap-plied to industry some of the farmers' farm-ers' troubles will vanish. n |