Show A company engaged in tho the manufacture of explosives in this city has f for 0 r sale now small bombs about the size of frankfurter sausages with which it is said the fanner farmer can bring down small showers howers a of rain whenever lie sees clouds over his land the constituents of ono one bomb are divided into two parts pi t arts liquid and so solid ai d which are both separately these can be kept separate until the time comes to uso them when they are mixed the solid part is about aninch an inch andt in diameter and arid eight inches in length and is wrapped in cotton these bombs are placed in grooved tin boxes each holding ten tn A small tin measure containing the liquid part accompanies each box it is graduated to show the quantity needed to sa saturate the bomb to the exploding point five or fifty bombs may be used according to the amount of rain needed or the detonation required how the farmer is to know how much det detonation on is needed is a dubious matter the bombs are tied in a bundle a time fuse is attached and the whole lot discharged from a mortar and at the passing cloud in billy hilly countries clouds often pass over the valleys and discharge their contents on tho the barren mountain sid sides 38 in such regions it Is said the bombs will bo be particularly useful new york world |