TAvnry, 1900.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 251 
Agriculture, 
ABOUT HAIL AND HAILSTORMS. 
By HENRY A. TARDENT, - 
Manager, Biggenden Experiment Farm 
teen number of the Journal (December, 1899) I had summed up the 
= ar nt state of our knowledge of frost and prevention from its damage. 
= one by the numerous letters I have received on the subject from various 
ell or the colony, many of our best farmers have taken it to heart, and are 
=| 1.91 Solved to dispute in the future their crops to the injuries from Jack Frost. 
| seldo Y I would like to write about another meteorological calamity which not 
u ue, hailstorms are usually of only limited areas. They seldom acquire 
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| & omnes? to the vineyards is officially estimated at over 100,000,000 franes 
, } 90,000) per annum! It is probably much upenee in France and Spain. 
e has tried to combat and 
ayers in the presence of such awful forces as lightning and hailstorms. 
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itm sev Tule this universe by whims and rules of thumb, but by established and 
ith we laws. ‘To discover those laws and arrange our lives in accordance 
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tance soeial life and human industry are transformed. The instantaneous 
Whore Capture lightning, to tame it, to produce it at will, to direct it to fall 
Notiye C°Y please, to domesticate it and reduce it to the réle of message-carrier, 
Sec question is now, Shall we ever obtain a similar control over storms, and 
an fe crops against their ravages ? 
bones first Iranklin’s discovery of the lightning-conductor had given great 
that it would help in subduing hailstorms too. It was surmised that the 
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