PLANTS MADE BIGGER
ELECTRICITY INTO ROOTS By pumping electrified air into their, roots, Mr. S. Nehru, a member of the Advisory Board of the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research, has obtained more vigorous growth of plants. At the Royal Society of Arts, Adelphi, recently, Mr. Nehru exhibited slides of potatoes, chrysanthemums, roses, and sugarcane, which had been treated by electricity, and the same kinds of plants not so treated, and in each case it was seen that the treated plant was much larger. In one experiment, Mr. Nehru said, electrified air was pumped into very poor soil, which afterwards grew a variety of seed never grown there before. Asked how his experiments could be usefully and generally applied to Mr. Nehru said it was hoped, in India, that the seed supply stations would treat seeds and supply them to the native farmers in insulated bags. , .
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 January 1934, Page 9
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