Ogden Daily Standard | 1910-07-09 | Page 4 | Electricity to Hasten Crops

rounding young: plants. It was found ' that while the growth was accelerated to a slight extent. It was not enough to warrant the expense of the electric equipment. Judge Williams has strung on poles about a doxen feet abov the ground In which seeds are planted, wires combining high . amperage and low voltage. Windmill are U6od to generate the electricity. Part of It Is running Into storage batteries for use on days when there Is no wind to work the mills. Judge Will lama tried tho scheme on i a small plot at Central Isllp. L. I., and Is said to have advanced the growth of his plants three weeks. He Is now .experimenting on, ft larger scale. ELECTRICITY TO HASTEN CROPS Xew York, July !). The newest thing in scientific sol) tilling is the "electric farm." Ex-Judge Thomas H. Williams of Brooklyn la making th experiment. He has purchased a two-acre two-acre plot of east Northport, L. I., on which he Is trying to grow crops with tho aid of electricity. r While the general scheme is not entirely new. Judge Williams things he has Improved on the methods era-. era-. ployed by experimenters near Dresden, Dres-den, Germany. Tho electric currents 1 wre passed through atmosphere sur-