SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
Somer Practica Resutrs rrom ELEctTRo-cULTURE. 
Some of Newman’s results were as follows :— 
Wheat— . 
Canadian Red Fife— 
1906—From electrified seed .. 35% bushels per acre, 
From .untreated seed .. 25% bushels per’ acre, 
1907—From electrified seed - .. 41.4 bushels per acre, 
From untreated seed .. 32 bushels per atre. 
2 1908—From electrified seed .. 82.5 bushels per acre, 
From untreated seed .. 26.2 bushels per acre, 
English White Queen— 
1906—Krom electrified seed .. 40 bushels per acre, 
From untreated seed .. 381 bushels per acre, 
Analysis also showed that the plants from the electrified seed yielded 
grain containing 11.15 per cent. dry gluten, and the untreated yielded 
only 10.85 per cent. This resulted in the electrified selling at 74 per 
cent. higher than the untreated. 
Other workers’ results -— 
Barley— 
Lemstrém, 7 and 14 per cent. increases per acre. 
Newman; 5 per cent. increase (would have been better only 
for previous bad preparation of soil). 
Oats— 
Lemstrém, average of 22 per cent. increase. 
Newman, 63 per cent. increase in grain, and 8 per cent. in 
- straw. 
Potatoes— 
Miss Dudgeon— 
Variety. 
Ringleader, 8 tons and 5.8 tons per acre. 
Windsor Castle, 11.7 tons and 9.8 tons per acre. 
Golden Wonder, 8.7 tons and 8.1 tons per acre. 
Great Scott, 11.8 tons and 10.3 tons per acre. 
Lemstrém, 81 per cent. and 15 per cent. increases. 
- Blackman and Jorgensen, various, 20 per cent. and 50 per 
cent. increases. 
Strawberries— 
Lemstrém, 37 per cent., at Durham; 50 per cent., at Breslau, 
Blackman and Jorgensen, 80 per cent. increase with young 
plants; 25 per cent. and 30 per cent. increase with old 
plants. 
Tre Posstsrrrry or Disease Conrrot. 
There is one other aspect that promises results of considerable 
economic importance. It is the matter of disease control. In a set 
of experiments with cucumbers in 1904, J. E. Newman found all his 
plots attacked by Spot disease. Those plants, under the influence of 
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