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Overhead Electrical Discharges. [april 3 



Evesham, 1906. 

 High-Tension Electricity from Coil and Valves, <2rc. 



Wheat Canadian Red Fife. — Increase 39 per cent. English Red 



Queen. — Increase 29 per cent. 

 Barley (a very irregular crop, owing probably to previous treatment 

 of field). — Increase 5 per cent. 



Evesham, 1907. 



Wheat Red Fife. — Electrified, 41*4 bushels per acre; control, 32*0 



bushels per acre. Increase 29 per cent. 

 Mangolds. — Some 18 per cent, increase ; but estimation merely by 



cartloads, and as loads varied, being biggest where crop heaviest, 



real increase should be greater. 

 Strawberries. — First complete picking, June 28th. Electrified 



56 lb. ; control, 33 lb. (Area of electrified is only 56 per cent. 



size of control area.) Final difference, July 10th. — Increase 25 



per cent. 



Evesham, 1908. 



Strawberries. — Acceleration as previously, thus : — Pickings on June 

 20th and 22nd give electrified 1,318 lb. ; control 1,876 lb. (Elec- 

 trified area 56 per cent, size of control.) Final result. — Decrease 

 9 per cent. (July 8th). Dry season. 



Wheat. — Electrified (7'68 acres) 32*5 bushels per acre; control (io'z 

 acres) 26*15 bushels per acre; increase, 24^3 per cent. 



Tomatoes. — Variety Bryant's Special (grown to single stem). 



Number of Plants ... 



Total fruit picked (lb.) 



Lb. per plant 



Fruit picked ripe and sound before 

 Sept. 24th 



The control area and electrified area A were to all appearances 

 exactly comparable as to situation and soil, while area B had a some- 

 what better aspect and was occasionally irrigated by the overflow of 

 a pond. 



Bitton, 1908. 



High-Tension Electricity from Coil and Valves, db*c. 

 Cucumbers. — 



Numbers picked before April 29th. 



Set of 5 houses (1) control ... 2,410 cucumbers ... (1) 214 cucumbers. 



Electrified. 



Control. 



A B 





483 929 



148 



39o 3,175 



358 



2-9 3-5 



2-4 



175 333 



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(2) control ... 2,477 



(3) electrified ... 2,753 



(4) electrified ... 2,710 



(5) electrified ... 2,729 



(2) 343 



(3) 485 



(4) 487 



(5) 424 



