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ELECTRO FARMING.
Stimulation of Plant Growth.
ON SNEEZING.
Ancient Fears Recalled.
WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 14, 1923.
When the application of Passing an old crone who was electricity in agriculture is gathering sticks in a beechwood mentioned many minds fame-up on the Chilterns, one day diately associate it with electro-chanced to sneeze, 9158 culture, as though that wers the contributor to a Home pager. only way in which electricity is useful to the farmer. Neverthe
once,
a
went
RAIN OF BEANS.
Report from Hupeh.
the
to
account
An cocurrerca which numbers will doubtless appear as of supernatural import, has taken; place in the province of Hupeb, according to a report in the Eastern Tives. The "God keep ye, sir!" she ex-states that on January 30th. less the stimulative effect of claimed, glancing up. I thought torrent of black beans rained weak electric currents upon plant she was going to ask for a copper, down over an area of 100 li in the life may be a very important one, but back, and no doubt it will ultimately her attention to the sticks. She other information to band regard
Chibsien district. There is no be almost universally employed little realised that her pions horing this occurrence, and in the but before that stage is reached was a survival from the terrible circumstances there is a very great deal still to years when the Black Plague may possibly be inclined to recalli
Jocal residents be learned, writes Mr. R. Borlase an aver Europe like a destroy-somewhat similar visitations int Matthews in the fanchestering flame, wiping out nearly a Shanghai Guardian Commercial.
third of the population. The ravaging plague is believed to recall, a shower of rice descended In 1912 or 1913, readers may Although extensive research have been the pneumonic form, and small and large scale experi-which began with a severe chill
upon
Settlement, Bod ments have been carried out So ominous was this chill that brought many Chinese out into occurring Iste at night. almost continuously since about everywhere 1,900 by a number of investiga prayer, when they beard a friend of cereal from such
the streets to garner small lots tors, and an Electro-cultura Com-sneeze, that he would not fall places as the tram rails or the resting mittee (formed early in 1915 by victim. Up to about a century the Board of Agriculture) has congo the uttered prayer still exist. interstices between paring ordinated, very little use has beened very widely in rural Englands. On that occasion it trans- made under aotaal commercial and Ireland, and still it survives in Formoss had been blown down pired that several rica godowns. conditions of the results obtained. here and there among old people by a typhoon and their contents From a close consideration of the like this Chiltern crone. [data available in this country and abroad, it is clear that the farmer may expect to increase bis crop yield per acte by at least 10 percent, by electrical stimulation.
it is considered polite to take off will in time be forthcoming for That this is not Rn unduly
your hat and say: optimistic figure may be seen
God pre-the present rain in Hupeh.- from
you!" She returns the AARN. the following increased vields obtained in larke-scale I found the same custom among how and says: "Thank you!";
trials carried out in
men uttered
LITTLE COURTESIES,
The Laplanders bow to a person who sneezes. If a woman sneezes
$9:2
Co the peasants of Russia, who,
carried by the force of the wind for hundreds of miles, to be de- posited when the force of the storm had ceased.
No doubt a similar explanation
parison with "control plats. however, cross themselves. The FLOODS IN PHILIPPINES. which received identical tresold menace of the plague has
meat
ID
all respects, gone, these two
gesture survives.
centuries the i
except that they were not sub-
Whole Province Under Water. jected to the electrical discharge. Under such conditions wheat has An older sneezing superstition The entire province of AguSAD shown increased Fields of 30 is that of the wild back off in the south is nader flood waters per cent to 30 per cent oats the Sorthern d'Entrecasteaux from the Agusan river, advices of 30 per cent. to 60 per cent. Islands, in the Pacific, north-east to constabulary beadquarters and barley of 20 per cent. to 40. of New Guines. They believe bere yesterday said, reports the per cent Potatoes bave shown that on sneezes when one's soul-Manila Daily Bulletin of January, sa increase of two to three tons remembers a dead friend
or 31st. per acre, and swedes of five to relative. The natives always refer eight tons. Although it is often to their soul in the thin person, stated that leguminous crops, as if it were a Jekyll to their such as peas and heros, do pet Hyde. respond to electro-culture, the fact remains that increase of 20
The three towns in the pro- vince, all located near the river. are flooded and the lives of more than 125,000 people have been endangered by the waters.
Water is running more than a meter deep in, the streets
of Butuan, the capital. Batuan is near the mouth of the river, which
Inanake this mother is not)" percent. yield bare been shown will exclaim a native who has in some experiments, and it seems lost his mother, when he sneezes: reasonable to believe that such or tamanake (his father is not)" results are not entirely based on if his father is his nearest dead is a navigable stream. errors of observation, or due to relative. When a man has lost!
All crops have been destroyed aecidental factors. Strawberries near relatives (grandparents but co lives have been lost, the have shown an incressed Field of are not reckoned as "mournable") advices stated. 88 per cent, on young plants and his exclamation is "Vacorna," and what is of even greater import-diamatic expression that recalls Ance, the fruit matured & wees a friend who has died in battle.
arlier than the neighboutir gi
jcrop, which was not subject to!
An app al for government aid was made yesterday, the con- tabulars provincial commander declaring that people up the river from Butuan are badly in need of
the electrical discharze. Inemas treated, the potential can be re-foot. ed pieli have been obtained with¦ duewi considerably, and in such The river is important in trade practically every food plans in jeases the capital outfar 1- lower.lng ail products of the land are green house tests.
Un the other hand, such installa. [floated down the river on rafts to Itions are only suitable in green- Butuan for shipments to Manila
houses or similar places, an that for Cebu.
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KLOSTER-BRAUERE!
PILSENER
NEUSTADT
BIE
ON SALE AT THE EMPRES3 STORE, KOWLOON
this cause.
the expense is still considerabiaf Agriculture is the chief in- in comparison with the area to be)dustry of the province with rice. treated.
corn, cupra. Dora and tobacco being raised.
GOOD RETURN ON ALFAL.
Taking the percentage incren.
Where Do They All Go?
It has been stated on what ja supposed to be good authority that the world's total outrus of pins - i at the rate of 200,000 a day. If so it may seem surprising that the world isn't becoming carpeted with pins. We know how easily
£
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STUDEBAKER CARS
NEW MODELS REDUCED PRICES. Owing to the tremendous demand.
THE STUDEBAKER CORPORATION
Announces reduction of prices in all models, BIG SIX 7 PASSENGER $4,500 SPECIAL SIX 5 PASSENGER $5,500 LIGHT SIX S PASSENGER.. $2,700 These prices include 5 wire or disc wheels, 3 Cord Tyres and complete set of tools.
Inspection and demonstration invited,
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PRESSED
AND
RESHAPED
DIRT, STAINS and CREASES, vanish as if by magie macher mer preewes and the original shape and "set" is restored.
The set of Dry-Cleaning ajputuplete suit is but $9.25 w the time taken a few days. White or phone and we will collect and deliver free.
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The results referred to above due to the wtimulation caused by the discharge ni very
all currents at high potential.! this spatem has been developed } in this counter. A network of very fine wires, spaced, sav. 13jed yields given amove and pre- 200,000,000 PINS A DAY. Buat apart is supported about war prices, the financial returasi fourteen feet above the field to from the extra yields due to fe treated and connected to electro-culture at- from £3 194 to the positive terminal of a high £1 per aces per anguth, so that voltage system. The potential eleven at the present prices for about 160bum wolts, but owing to equipment there shoull be a good the current being very small the return on the capital invested, jenergy consumption is exceed.;
On the Continent various other ingly low. amounting to almut. one unit of electricity (ie. 100ms of electrical stimulation have been suggested and tried. watt hours), per acre per cOne of the most promising is the they are lost-where do they 20 It has been found that excessive
system of passing current has a detrimental effect,
currents to? Most of the decay into and the few had results obtained through the plant roots and the nothingness, for actually, the pin have undoubtedly been due to surroun ing soil. Very large in-is not such a time defying object creases in yield, and other ad
as it seems. Every pin dropped vantages, such as the destruction in a damp place soon turns into a Moreover, the current must not of insect pests, are claimed, but few grains of rust. be on continuously, two or "three unfortunately very little data is
With new pins tumed out by hours per day during certain given, and some of the results manchinery in such immense num stages of the plants' growth seems may be greatly exaggerated. Ex-bers, our grandmothers' maxims to give the best results, but it de-periments along these lines will, about picking up pins are forget pends upon the type of plant, the however, probably be nadertaken ten, but in the 14th. century, when sexson of the year, and the wrain this country in the near future pius were first introduced, they ther conditions. In really wet If they prove successful the were valuable articles not to be weather no useful effect is pro capital outlay for the plaut lightly lost, recalls Everydag duced by the discharge, while should be less than for the usual Science, An old law permitted stimulation during hot sunsbice electro-culture equipment work- the sale of pins on only two days is injurious. Owing to the net-ing on the electric discharge of the year, the first and second work being suspended 14 feet system, which is asustly used by of January. It was then the above the field it can remain up English experimenters.
custom of all the women folk to permanently, and will not inter- fere with cultural operations cor to the small amount of electrical12 months. As is still customary Reference has been raade above buy their plas for the following with the carting of crops. When such work is being done the car. energy required per crop for they went to their busbands of rent is of course ewitched off, ao electro-cultural purposes. When fathers for the wherewithal and that there is no danger of acit is realised that an acre re hence the term "pio money." cidental contact with the wires, quires during the course of the which would probably be attend-year only as much current as is
ARE YOU ONE OF THE ed with fatal results.
consumed by an ordinary 40-watt lamp used for four hours per
FORTUNATE FEW? The widespread employment of evening during one winter week, Unless you are oneof those fex electro-culture is being retarded it will be seen that the cost of persons who never suffer from by the relatively high cost of the current is nagligible. The fucare costiveness, sick beadaches, or necessary equipment. An installs- of electro-culture depends not liverishness, Pinketies are u tion to deal with 100 acres costs upon cheap electricity but upou essential in your home. These Mr. Reuben Meyer Nissim, of brother Joseph, 10,000 rupees in about £450, and the smallest sets the production of the necessary dainty little laxatives restore Bombay, India, described as a trust for the poor and deserving for field □月容 are at least equipment at a reasonable price. daily regularity, tone up the liver, "cotton merchant, Jewish in residents of Bombay, and the £150 each. The major portion
of the expense is in connic- tion with the provision of thei [necessary high-voltage
trats- formers or induction colla. Where the wires can be placed two or three feet from the crops to be
. Caruso said :- My VICTOR RECORDS shall be my biography" MOUTRIES:-Bole Victor 'Agents."
Rub your
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A JEW'S WILL,
Daughters not to Marry Christians.
that his funeral expenses are not to exceed 5,000 rupees, this to include the payment of money to poor Jews, for prayers for one year in Jerusalem and for providing a soroll of the· Law. He gives 15,000 rupees to his
the
banish sick headaches, purify the habitant," who died at 49 Baan-residue of the property in trost breath. They adót a gently as mont Street, London, W., on for his daughters Doris and nature and never gripe nor purge. November 20, 1921, has left Edna. He declared that Chemists sell Pinkeiles, or post £24,218.-178. 36 in this country, benefits given to my daughters free, 60 cents per vial; from Dr. Probate has been granted to and their inúa áre on condition Williams' Medicine Co., 60 Klang-Maurice Hissim, of 35, Rutland that they shall not marry se Road, Shanghai.
[Gate, London, W. He directed Christians.”