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(IKOWING CROPS BV OVERHEAD ELECTRIC CUBBENT. Tlio British Development Commission era have made a. grant. <»f money to tin Inipci'ia] College of Science and Tech nology, South Kensington, for experi ments in the. effect of overhead elcctri cal discharge on the srrovth of crops The experiments irill lie carried out a Huntington Court Vaim; near Hereford under the supervision of Professor V. IT Biackmnn. Trofessov of Plant Physio logy and Pathology at South Kensing ton. Professor Blackman said: "One Teasni why Hereford irns seleoted is that tin I eleotric main runs out rather far fron the town, and some of the farmers ii the neighbourhood already use electnc ity for driving their machines. Oni milks his cows by an electrical device. "The main has to to extended orfli another mile to reach the farm,' nnd m soon as i\e can obtain a. certain type o machine we shall get to work. Tha mny he in a'month or weeVs' time The Hereford Corporation are takin; a ereat interest in the entornrise." Associated with Professor Blnekmnn ii the e.tneriments will he Mr. I. Jorgen sen, ii Tlanish electrical engineer.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3096, 29 May 1917, Page 8
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