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DAY OF HEAVY LABOR FOR
HORSES WILL PASS AWAY,
Farm Machinery Will More and More
be Operated by Steam, Gasolene
and' Electricity—Greatest Epoch in
Agricultural History Unfolding.
The day of the horse as a heavy la
borer on American farms is ended and
farm machinery will more and more
be operated by sieam, gasolen and
electricity. In Germany and l;irance
many creameries and small dairies
have been long in operation by this
method. American farmers have been
the leading users of labor-saving ma
chinery, but mostly on the large
farms, where the weight of the ma
chinery was a constant drawback to
the adoption of electric motor power.
The machines are now' being made
lighter without destroying -their effi
clency, and electricity is rapidly play
ing an important part in their Jevel
opment, .
The trackless trolley farms have
to-day loomed up as experimental in
vestments which thoroughly work out
all that was claimed for them. With
cheaper power derived from the rivers
and waterfalls electricity will extend
to all parts of the country, and small
and .large farming implements will be
operated thereby. FElzetric power Is
cheaper than horsepower, even when
ordinary fuel is used to operate the
engines, and when the power can be
supplied from some river it will be
far cheaper than steam in any form.
Conditions at present promise the
unfolding of one of the greatest
epochs in American agricultural his
tory. The last half century has been
remarkable for its agricultural ma
chinery, but in the next fifty years
the use of electric power for cultivat
ing farms, stimulating and planting
and harvesting crops will far eclipse
in importance anything yet achieved.
In the new era of electric farming the
industry will attract men who now
look upon farm wcerk as drudgery, and
the appearance of this new type of
men in fields and orchards will tend
even more to create revolutionary
changes. ‘
The application of the electric cur
rent to the growing plants by means
of wire netting in the soil or by the
arc rays has received peculiar atten
tton from those interested in truck
gardening and greenhouse work. In
the latter the arc and incandescent
lamp have been employed more than
experimentally. The color of -the
globes of the electric lamps has been
found to change the effect on the
plants.
By repeated experiments different
colored globes are in use for different
purposes. The red rays are too high
ly stimulating for many plants and the
violet rays yield with the scit yellow
ones the best results. It is possible
in this way to stimulate the growth
of certain plants without materially
exhausting their vitality or weaken
ing the reproductive power of the
seeds.
Many planthouses and hothouses
now employ the electric arc lamp with
great success in forcing plant growths
during the cold winter days and
nights. By keeping the plants flooded
with electric rays day and night the
plants are forced to quick growsh,
and they prove tender and crisp in
the case of lettuce and radishes,
The use of electricity for the pro
tection of crops from insects, worms
and fungi is one of the latest develop
ments in this method of agriculture.
Considering that millions of dollars’
worth of crops are annually ruined by
insects, the employment of any agen
¢y must be a matter of widespiead
intarest.
Electricity as an insect destroyer is
rapid and effective. It kills the eggs
and larvae of the bugs and worms
that live in the ground almost as
surely as the insects that crawl above.
In faot, it is- to reach the eggs and
larvae in the soil that the agent is
employed most generally, for heavier
shocks of electricity can be adminis
‘tered in the spring or fall, when no
‘plants are growing, than in the sum-
A garden or %‘ mgfig with a
network of wires ¢an be given a series
;of electric shocks between crops or
geasons which no life can withstand.
In the early spring, when the soil is
ploughed up for the first sowing, the
electric power is turned on and the
soil is so heavily charged with the
fluid that all insects and eggs that
have beén wintering in the ground
will be instantly killed.
It has been repeatedly demonstrat
ed that by destroying the eggs and
larvae in the soil the attacks of in
sect pests are practically reduced to
nothing, and little actual injury need
be feared. When the warm weather
returns the multitudes of insects
which appear in the gardems and
fields have been hatched out in their
earthly homes a few inches beneath
the frost line. In wiring gardens for
this purpose it is essential that the
wires should be placed sufficiently
beneath the surface of the soil to in
sure complete destruction to the in
sects which burrow below the fiost
line for their winter habitation.
Atmospheric electricity is now col
lectzd on some farms and distributed
by underground wires to different
parts of the field. 'The more or less
abundance of electricity in the air de
termines the value of this method,
but it ig certain that little of this can
be used by the plants for their own
growth unless artificially supplied to
them.
By means of tall poles, surmounted
by copper receivers, the atmospheric
electricity at a considerable altitude
can be collected and carried by wires
down to the soil. Distribufing wires
of small sizes placed under the soil
then scatter the electric fluid around
in small quantities. Plants growing
near the wires obtain an abundance of
the stimulating agent and they re
spond to its influence.
The amount of electricity in the at
mosphere changes according to the
weather and some days the soil be
comes saturated with it and the plant
growth is remarkable at such times,
Work and Digestion.
San Francisco team drivers receive
$3, $3.50 and $4 a day for driving one,
two and three-horse teams, respec
tively.
The French physiologist Fere has
made experiments which show that
the process of digestion diminishes
the capacity for muscular work fully
one-half. As regards the effects of
stimulants like tcbacco angd alcohol,
he has found that while they diminish
fatigue, the effect never lasts more
than ten minutes, and is followed by
a greater degree of fatigue than would
have existed !f they had not been in
dulged in.
An Awful Japanese Custom.
It was a custom in old Japan to
bury living retainers, servants and
even horses, upright in a circle round
the grave of a member of any imper
ial or noble family. The heads of
these poor wretdhes were left exposed.
and thejr cries of agony during their
lingering death could be heard night
and Jday. This awful custom was
changed by a tender-hearted ruler.in
the second year of our Christian era,
rough clay images being substituted
for the living beings, but so late as
A. D. 646 another emperor had to leg
islate against the recurrence of such
living burials.
Tribute to Queen Victoria.
The statue unveiled by the Duke of
Connaught at. Woolwich shows Queen
Victoria standing in her robes, with
the orb and scepter in her hands, and
with the crown upon her head. Round
the base are four pictures represent
ing the “Mortar Batteries at the Siege
of Sevastopol,” “Blowing in the Cash
mere Gate,” “P Battery, R. H. A., Go
ing Into Action at Paardeburg,” and
a “Mountain Battery in Afghanistan.”
The population of Austria increased
fiom 22,144,244 in 1800 to 26,150,760
i~ 1901, or by 18.09 per cent.
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forth, of St. Joseph, Mich, tells how she
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1007 Miles Ave., St. Joseph, Mich.
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