42 ELECTRICITY IN AGRICULTURE 
and the new insulators were employed. The size of the 
machine was also the same, and the whole equipment was 
made at Helsingfors. 
ENGLAND. 
EXPERIMENTS AT DURHAM COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, 
NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE.—Summer, 1902. 
After a long correspondence with Mr. Hogarth, of 
Kirkcaldy, I was induced to erect an installation for 
experiments to be made at Durham College of Science. 
After having corresponded with Mr. R. B. Greig, I got 
the conditions for my experiments settled, and it was 
determined that they should begin as early as possible. 
As a matter of fact, they could not begin before May 24th, 
1902, after all plants had been sown. This work was com- 
pleted on May 22nd. The machine employed was driven 
by an electromotor. 
Our intention was to put under experiment the following 
plants:—Barley, oats, sugar-beets, mangolds, potatoes, beans, 
carrots, turnips, swedes, clover, rye grass and strawberries. 
After the electric current had been applied some days 
(from May 24th to June 2nd) it could be seen on nearly all 
plants that germination and vegetation were much better 
on the experimental fields than on the control fields. Espe- 
cially was this. the case with strawberries, and the barley 
showed a much richer development under current than 
without it. But after the commencement of June the bad 
weather—the rain and the low temperature—began to 
exercise their strongest influence. 
The following meteorological observations, taken at 
Cockle Park, Morpeth, may be set out to give a true idea of 
the weather during the summer of 1902 :— 
Average No. of 
Hours of No. of days hours machine 
Sunshine. without rain, in motion. 
May 24-31 ( 7 days)... 24°0 ... ..... Be devasieeai 9°8 
June 1-30 (30 ,, ) ... 142°0 v.....eee ED, avacvens 98 
July 1-31 (31 i 3 wis LOA 'S ey sieccgs TO. cadcnsn Ill 
Aug. 1-31 (31 » ). 
Sept. 1-30 (30, a LTO" “wera ae DA, egies even 10°5 
Oct. 1-3 (3 ,, ) ‘Rain all the time. 
