16 MARCH 1918, Page 10

THE ELECTRIFICATION OF SEEDS.

[To THE Boma OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—May I correct a small error that occurs in your summary of my letter to the Times on the electrification of seeds? You quote me as saying that the Ministry of Munitions has established plant for working the process. Such action would perhaps be ultra sires of the Ministry of Munitions. What the Ministry has done is to grant permits for the use of materials to erect the plant and for the use of machines to work it. This is not quite the same as erecting the plant itself, though the difference is not in effect un- portant, and I should not make the correction were I not anxious to have nothing that cannot be substantiated said of the process.—