Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1906-11-30

Separation of CoIors.-Odd Uses of
Paper. Death Unknown.
"A Poison Problem.-A Platinum
Substitute The New Fish Farming.
"A Mine Retreat. = Condensed
Bean Milk.
Summarizing the progress that has
been made in electro culture, Is.
Folksdort, ii German, finds it fairly
we'll proven that electricity is
essential to the growth of vegetation,
although the important part played
IS not yet understood. Prof. Lem
strom has found that plants soon died
under wire cage, which excluded
atmospheric electricity, while freely
admitting air, heat and light. In
Spitzbergen and Finnish Lapland
large crops are always connected with
the early appearance of the northern
lights; and in the experiments that
have been made-so far on a small
scale-the yield of many plants has
been increased by an artificial supply
of electricity and water. 1t is sup
posed that electricity stimulates the
sap exchange of plants, while Lem
strom has shown that it greatly
magnifies capillary power, thus pro-
badly enabling the plants to take in
more food from the ground.
70 test our perception of hues, DR..
Eldridge Green has devised a special
instrument, which measures exactly
the largest area of the spectrum that
seems to have one shade of color.
Hue perception proves to be gener-
ally most accurate, in the yellow
region, though sometimes 10 the blue,
with gradual diminution toward the
center and ends of the spectrum, red
being least readily separated. The
results accord with DIR. Green's
theory that color PERCEPTION rests in
a special brain center, whose in
creased development adds to the
number of coIors we see.
Paper or wood pulp has been used
tor wheels rails, cannons, paving
bricks, water pipes telegraph poles,
, lanterns, leather, textile fabrics,
collins, barrels, milk bottles, straw
hats, sponges, thread, porcelain,
bullets, shoes, building boards,
paint, entire houses, and even stoves
that stood fire we'll.
The idea that there is no natural
death is fascinating learned biologists.
In the lowest organisms, those of
single cell, the individual is repro
duced by splitting into two parts,
each IF which becomes new living
body, and the distinguished Ellie
Metchnikof has Ventured the view
that this form of life is immortal.
Death comes only by accident
Going further, Naegeli, German
botanist, decides that there is no
natural death in the plant world, and
that trees living thousands of years
are destroyed at last by catastrophe
or some external action. Prof. Loeb
sees no certain evidence of natural
death, although the cessation OF life
in certain eggs of the sea hedgehog a
few hours after being discharged. may
be such. Metchnikof rejects this
possible exception as accidental
death, resulting from a kind of
starvation, and agrees that natural
death is unproven. The so-calIed
deaths from old age, gentle and pains
less, prove to be violent, the action
of disease microbes being revealed by
LESSONS of the internal organs.
Mysterious poIsonIngs that occur
occasionally in. farm stock have been
traced to the development of prussic
acid In fodder plants. DIR. j. W.
Leather, in India, has found that
green jowarl (Andropogum Sorghum).
fax, the Rangoon and certain other
beans, and the tapioea plant contain
glucosides that produce prussic acid
when acted upon by particular
engine, and that this ferment be-
comes active only under rare con-
ditions. when the ordinarily whole
some plants become suddenly poison
Gus. Young jowarl that had proven
fatal to cattle showed lbs grains of
prussic acid to the pound of green
fodder.
\ new alloy, which serves eIectri-
clans as a substitute for platinum,
consists of 16H ounces of silver, Az
pounds of nickel, . ounce of bis
muth, and SO penn weights of gold.
The cost is about one thin tieth of
that Of platinum.
One apple stump of an Oregon
farmer has been successfully grated
with % varieties of fruit, including
peaches, plums, prunes, and even
some nuts.
| The late German fishery expert
ments promised quite revolutionary
results. The tests extending over
several months, have shown that
deepsea fishes may be accIimatized
In fresh water, and may be made to
live and breed in our rivers. Whit
ing, sole, herring. founders and other
salt water fish we're first placed in a