Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1913 — Electricity and Plant Life. [ARTICLE]

Electricity and Plant Life.

The theory has been advanced and backed up by experiments which are at least interesting, that pointed -leaves standing up at the top of growing plants attract electricity from the atmosphere and that such electric forces aid materially in the growth of plants so equipped by nature. One investigator, R. E. Dimick of Almena, Wls., reports that vegetables which were well cultivated have shown a smaller growth than the normal when they had pointed wires stuck up among them to act like lightning rods in drawing off the electricity which Mr. Dimick believes to be attracted b'y points and needful to plant life.