The 



Effects of Radio-Active Ores and 

 Residues on Plant Life. 



By MARTIN H. F. SUTTON, F.L.S. 



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A view of some of the Trials with Radio-active Ores at Button's Experimental 



Station, Reading. 



The immense value of Radium in the treatment of certain forms of disease 

 having already been established, suggestions have been made from time to 

 time that its remarkable properties might also prove beneficial in the promotion 

 of plant life. 



In the " Journal of the Royal Society of Arts " for December 12, 1913, 

 there appeared a most interesting Paper by Mr. T. Thorne Baker, A.M.I.E.E., 

 F.C.S., on " The Applications of Electricity to Agriculture," in the course 

 of which he referred to certain experiments that had been conducted, in 

 a small way, with radio-active soil and to the somewhat astonishing results 

 that were said to have been obtained. 



As I happened to have in Cornwall a relative living in the neighbourhood 

 where some of these trials were made, I went down in February, 1914, 



