ELECTRICITY AND SHEEP RAISING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 66, 1 November 1911, Page 3

ELECTRICITY AND SHEEP RAISING.

According to Professor Silas Wentworth, of Los Gatos, California, his experiments with electric influence on animal and vegetable life at his experimental farm on a ranch near Jtoseville during the past year have proved that electricity will more than double the production of lambs and greatly increase the yield of wool. A flock of 2000 sheep was divided, one half being placed in a field under the power wires of an electric 'power company, while the other was removed from electric influences. In the held under the electric power line the production of lambs averaged a fraction over ; two lambs to each ewe. In the adjoining held, where electrical influence j was lacking the lamb average was less than- one to each ewe. Similar differences wove noted in the yield of wool from the sheep in the different fields. The fleeces from the- sheep in the electrically-influenced held proved 20 per cent heavier. Preparations .are being made to plough up both fields and plant wheat, when the effect of the current on the growth of that cereal will be tested.