Show RADIO MAKES PLANTS GROW Electric Activity Stimulates Stimulates Stimulates lates Production of Big Crops Conn June 20 By The Associated Press Broadcasting big crops was pre pro predicted predicted by Admiral W. W II It Bullard chairman of oC the federal radio commission as a possibility of ot the future based upon established sd- sd scientific scientific facts In an address Sunday at the one hundred first com corn commencement commencement of ot Trinity college As a sidelight to radio with Its Us attendant dissipation of oC electrical energy radiated from many pow poe powerful erful erCul transmitters through the th nu nu- numerous numerous nu- nu numerous antennae said Admiral Bullard Dullard comes the remarkable fact that plant life lICe subjected to the bombardment of oC these electric waves shows extremely rapid growth This has been tested and proven In many Instances flowers Clowers and vegetables ripen quickly and grow gro to unusual sizes For years the tho United Fruit company has controlled the degree of or ripeness at which they can de de- deliver deliver de- de deliver liver their fruit to the markets by bythe bytho bythe the tho application of oC high frequency currents Certain soils are known to pos pos- possess possess sess seas properties of ot radio activity which releases the high frequency gamma ray fay which stimulates the growth of ot plant life lICe An experiment experiment experiment ment was made recently In Califor Califor- California California nia by spreading powdered radio radio- radioactive radioactive radioactive active soil from Colorado over the original soil In a n. rice field The resulting rice crop was emend ti-emend- ous |