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Title: Journal of the Bath and West and Southern Counties Society
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Bath and West and Southern Counties Society Bath and West and Southern Counties Society
Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: London : Edward Stanford
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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most of the legumes areadversely affected by the application of electricity. At present,this fact is not very well established, but if it should be itjwillbe a point of great interest, when we remember that, in rotations,leguminous plants are found to behave in an opposite manner tocereals.* * The President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (Dr. Gisbert Kapp),in a recent address to the Institution, said, with reference to the benefit whichelectricity had rendered to Agriculture, that Sir Oliver Lodge, by his researches,had enabled the old idea of the stimulaton of the growth of plants by electrifica-tion to be taken up in a practical way. About 12 farms were now fittedwith apparatus for electrifying the air over the plants, and the average result onthe 12 farms was an increase of 30 per cent, in the crops. Perhaps after afew years the soil would be exhausted by this intensive cultivation, but if thatwere the case electricity would supply the remedy.—Ed. B. & W Journal.
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Fig. 8.—Thwaite Electric Light at Regents Park(Front View). Fig. 9. — Thwaite Electric Light at Regents Park (Back View).

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