The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1920-10-22
CUT COST OF LIVING
With new INVENTION
Bacteriologist Says Fertilizer
Will Double Farm
Production.


doubling of the growing capacity OF
all soil-are the claims for a new fer
tilizer invented by DIR. F. NJ. Wood, a
Chicago bacteriologist, who arrived
in Memphis yesterday on the first
lap of journey by automobile thru
the south, where he expects to pro-
mote the establishment of a fertiliz-
ing plant in every county in the
southern states.
1 In Memphis, according to DR..
Wood, huge laboratories will be es-
tablished and this city will be the
main southern office for the enter
prise. other than mere tentative
plans, nothing has been done as yet
toward locating the laboratories here
but DR.. Wood held conferences with
several local financiers yesterday re-
lative to introducing the new inven-
ton to southern farmers.
The method really is not new, but
is simply an old process carried out
in new way, according to DR.. Wood.
1t will reduce the high cost of living,
tighten farm work and, above all, it
is cheap, he says.
DIR. Woods method consists of vac
cinating the ground. Multiplying or
ganisms found in the roots of legu-
minous plants, such as alfalfa, clover
and cowpeas, are isolated and kept
alive in a liquid solution, multiple
ed and returned to the soil, where
they make more accessible the nj
trogen in the ground.
Experiments have shown, accord
ing to DR.. Wood that seeds soaked
in the solution have grown twice as
fast as seeds from the same batch,
but untreated.
81 think that l have solved the
problem in my liquid solution" the
inventor stated. ''In the liquid solu-
ton the germs are kept alive, where
as the government was not very sue
cessful in keeping them alive in the
dry form
'At present nitrates for use on the
farm cost in the neighborhood of $50
per acre, while my solution can be
procured for % cents an acre. My
plan is to manufacture the solution
in each farming locality, using the
particular form of germs produced
there, and then, as time passes, cross
these germs with others from differ
ent countries and states"
Farmers To Operate Plants.
Continuing he stated that the
plans of financing the proposition
were simple, and he contemplated nc
trouble, inasmuch as under his pro-
cess farmers in the various localities
would pay for the installation of the
fertilizing plants and operate them,
and that he would receive only a
stipulated royalty on all sales. He
stated that by establishing small
plant in every farming section at a
comparatively small cost to the
farmers, freight and expenses would
be avoided.
He said that he has spent years in
research work on his new invention.
DIR. Wood received B. A. degree
in the Yale Army Psychological
School and an NJ. d. degree in Prince
ton University. He was former ar
my physician in Mexico and during
the war was the head of the recon-
struction division of the medical
corps During his. career as gov
eminent surgeon he has carried on
various forms of research work sue
cessfully.
The inventor insists that his solu-
ton will not only double the growing
capacity of the soil, but will make
possible the doubling of crops in the
same season, as the solution will has
ten the development of plants.
Whether or not the invention will
be successful. it is attracting inter
national attention. DR.. A. Comal-
louga, representing the agricultural
department of Cuba, was present
when test was made of the solution
according to DR.. Wood, and was con-
WINGED of the merits of the invention.
The Cuban has reputation in Eu-
rope and in this country as an au-
thority on agricultural questions.
DR.. Wood stated that at least four
central offices will be established.
At the central points laboratories will
be established, where solutions man
ufactured in the farming districts will
be tested.
The inventor will leave Memphis
today, continuing his tour. He will
not return until plans have been per-
fected for the manufacture of his in
vention, he stated.