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I first heard about the new electric plow invented by Mr. Roe of Pittsburgh through your magazine [TIME, Aug. 1]. It interested me so much that I was telling a farmer friend about it yesterday. As it happened, my friend had just been to Leroy, N. Y. to learn more about this plow and he told me more than TIME had. For your information there are tivo blades to it. The tractor that drags it is equipped with a generator from which the current passes from share to share under the soil, which must be damp to insure good transmision. The current thus electrocutes all insect life in its path and also it fixes nitrogen from the atmosphere into the soil thus fertilizing the field.
There are to be demonstrations of the electric plow at the Genesee County Fair this month. I intend going to see for myself and will send you photos of the plow idle and in action.
JEROME P. WATTERSON Albany, N. Y.
Let Reader Watterson send photographs not of the plow alone but of Inventor Roe & plow, of Inventor Roe plowing.—ED.
* An error. TIME prints no "gossip." —Ed.
* Famed naturalist, sportsman, associate editor of Field & Stream. Many the good bass yarn (sea bass) has he written.—Ed.
† Libelous word omitted.—ED.