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Show Tlli:luTUt'KtnlKIMI. WitmiN the put few yiara quite an accumulation of literature ha leeu pruduivd relating to Irrigation, nln-iiuklng nln-iiuklng audothvr echemit by which Ihe draert may gtt lu full thare of moltlurc. Many of nature'a force Imvu already bei n reduced to maii't dominion. Hteam and electricity are lmiortant factort In modern drill, lutlon. The atmotphcre hat at ytt proved, comparathely tj-raklng, an unknown element. Klfbrt have Um maile to navigate the air, but to for they have proved abtolute failure!. Thn latett development lu tho atmoai herlo tphi re It tho allempt to bring tain at will from the cloud. A thort tlmo ago balloon charged wllh oxgeii and h)drogen wereaent up high In thu air, and by mi am of dynamite nj lotlont on them It wat hoit-'d that alunuaut ralut would 1m pruducid. Thlt Xrlment did not proto tuccii-tful, Uciiiic, to have tho dtklrud etlect, certain iitmoapherlo coudltloiit ihould vxltl, thut making thetchemea tuttttr of chance. I'runk Melbuurni-, an Australian, It the Itlut wliard liitheralu producing bdtllcaa. Hit ellbrlt teem to bo attended at-tended with tome tuuita. The agricultural agri-cultural department at Vahlngton la aiding him In hit rxperlmuiivi, and he la puthlug hit work vlgorouily aud wllh determination. He It nporK-d to i.avuroduid ralu In Ohio a fewdayi ago, when all the meteorological In-dhiillout In-dhiillout of lulu wire nUent, Ho uhiu marhluo Invented by lilmttlf. In It It inauufictured h cirtaln got which the machine project! Into thu air, and the remit It ralu. The limn required for Ihe tuccettful working of the tinchlue Melbourne hay t, 1 from tlx liouratuthne ih, aud the area aflectod It 2.1,0011 Muaru inlh-a. Uoneral llrenforth It now In Tcxat dlrtttlng expvrlmeuti made under thu pruvlilonaof tho Agricultural Detail, nieut. It I ttlll held by many thut ralii cm bo produced by llrlug ex-plotlvn ex-plotlvn high In the air while othiri coutetid that tlita I a fallacy. Thla question Dyrenforth mcaui to tolve by actual exjierlmeut. Home time jn u illlxtn of Hall Lake City, of au IummiUyb turn of mind, wat dlKuulug tho ralu queetlou with tliuurltir. He held that a tlmpli r and ihiterimthoduaa within the reach of all. Ou the principle by which moltturo collect ou Ihe outaldo of a pitcher of lee.w ater, Hewcull erect a Urge tlmft of tomo chitp kind of uiclal, uud blow through It u cold bhlt. The cold turface coming In contact with the hot air 'Id produce water, wliloh would trloklo lo Ihe bate oftlKi thaft and there form a lirgu Intnl. He tayt that one citluu In the Territory hat alrealy tried thlt plan on a email tcale, and produced from a very email abaft at much water at would fill an Inch ) l-e. Thlt aclieme nuy not In at t ractlca-bleat ractlca-bleat chimed, but whoever produce rain or water at will from the air, will certainly prove a beutfactor to humanity, human-ity, aud will liumortallto lilmtelf and rank among the foremott Inventor, dtrcoverera and tclentltt. |