The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-01-08
uEeErARlEs - ELEcrRIcIrH.
The interesting Dilsovary Made by q Bee
Gnu Truck Gardener.

The interesting Discovery Made by q EESs-
ton Truck Gardener.
INTENSE interest has been aroused
among Massachusetts, farmers and arrri-
culturists by the recent publication
OF a bulletin from the agricultural sta
ton OF Cornell university in which the
declaration is made that experiments
show that the electric light can be
probably used in the growing of plants
In the light os this announcements the
publication Of Prof Warmers expert
meuts viii be looked forward to with
cOnsidera BILE interest Prot Warner has
conducted his Investigations with great
care and thorcughness, and few per
sons outside the college stan have been
aware that experiments were going on
It is understood that important expert
ments have also been made at the col
lege with electric currents. with the
end in view Of verifying the experiments
of foreign scientists which go TO show
that the action Of electric currents upon
plants and vegetables seems to consist
in the active dissolution of the organic
principles existing in the soil, which
are thereby brought within the reach
Of the roots thus causing more rapid
growth IN a shorter period
independent of the experiments at the
/ agricultural college only one private i'm
dividual in the state is known to have
experimental with the electric light,
and that is W. w. Rawson, an extensive
market gardener in Arlington hr
/ Rawson had his attention drawn 20 the
/ effect of the electric light on plant
| growth in a singular manner and by &C
/ cidenE As far as he is concerned,
/ therefore, his experiments were original
with himself and were made long be-
/ fore he heard any attention was being
. paid to the subject by foreign or Amer
p H-.TT s7.H
Z happened that an electric light was
! erected by the town of Arlington for
I street lighting purposes at point IN
! close proximity to one side of his resi-
| dence. On that side Of his house were
] a number OF flower beds which never
| thrived until the rays of the electric
! light began to fall upon them. The
| plants soon began to show an unusual
/ change. Finally they exhibited such a
I lively and increased growth that they
! could not fail to attract attention,
| and no reason could be assigned
| for the phenomena but the effect OF
! the electric light Determined TO push
] the experiment further, Mr.. Rawsou
| introduced lights into his extensive hot
! houses, devoted to the winter raising
mainly OF cucum bers and lettuce. The
marked effect on his crop became at
/ once very manifest ana the eNperime al
| was seemingly so successful during the
! winter of 1889 and 1899 that he fully
! demonstrated to his own satisfaction
! that he could raise a larger crop of let
/ tuce or cucumbers of better quality in
| a shorter time than he could before; in
! fact, he convinced himself that the
! electric light enabled him to increase
/ his profits twenty-five per cent over
/ what they had been before. Last win
! ter he was disappointed in obtaining
| electric power and could not make
/ further Investigations. Meanwhile, he
! correspondent with scientists at home
and abroad and impaired to them the
results he had obtained. He hopes this
winter to resume his experiments on q
/ large scale and is making preparation
| to that end. He has experimental boil
/ with arc lights and incaudesceuts aut
has found that the former are more Of
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