% Ava., 1901.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL, 241 
Science, 
SHOOTING IN THE AIR TO DISPEL HATLSTORMS. . 
For the fields, gardens, and vineyards hail is no less dangerous a foe than 
untimely frosts, or severe and lasting droughts. But man, with his usual 
energy, has taken up the struggle against the powers of Nature, which by their 
sudden and unseasonable appearance deprive him of the fruits of his labour and 
industry. In America all kinds of devices for producing, artificially, showers. of 
rain have been experimented at great cost, but without any success. Much 
Visit or THE Kina or Iraty To A SHootina STATION IN STYRIA. 
good, however, has been done in many wine-growing districts, in combating 
the late frosts that occur in spring time. Frost preventers have been created 
in the form of a fire, which operates effectually, and if light in time the smoke 
which is: formed by the fire is as effective against frost as a fire-brigade 
against fire. 
In consideration, therefore, of the damage done by hail every year, 
it is well worthy of consideration whether human intelligence cannot 
discover some effective means of protecting agriculture, by breaking or 
driving away hailstorms. The first attempts in this direction on a large scale 
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