Show PRODUCING RAIN alsan francisco francioco chronicle the government is ie going to make extensive experiments in producing rain to order and balloons for the purpose are now in course of construction near here there is but one balloon farm in the worl dand that to is at frankfort carl myers irs io the man who has the balloon farm about half a mile from the village of frankfort and ten miles from utica this unique institution is found the farm consists of only five acres but it to is a busy place professor myers ayere calls his balloon manufactory a farm because the same conditions of weather are necessary f for or balloon making as for farming good hay bay weather is good balloon weather the rain producing bombs which the united states government are ex peri men ting with are made by droles eor ayere they could be made at no other place in the country general Dryden forth is the special officer in charge of the experiments he ma making king final arrangements with professor myers for a trip to northern texas where experiments will be made to see if rain cannot be produced by explosions plo siong in the air one hundred balloons each ten feet in diameter have been made and shipped to texas for this purpose this is the arid region of the united states and if rain can be produced artificially upon this land it will beof the greatest benefit to the farmers in southern kansas and texas as well as in south dakota and other portions of the country in a few words the plan to is to innate a ballon with one part of oxygen gas and two parts of hydrogen gas A small ordinary cartridge connected with two wires is placed in the balloon and the whole Is ia sent up when the balloon is sufficiently high the oart cartridge ridge is exploded by means of electr electro city ity sent through the wires and the two gases unite forming water this serves as a nucleus to precipitate the moisture of the atmosphere and there is rain last may professor myers and nd general Dryden forth made first experiment in this line in a ravine a short distance from the farm then a few balloons were taken to washington and in presence of several officers and scientific men another experiment was held it was a perfect success the balloon was exploded the gases ignited with a most terrific report and a brilliant illumination it rivaled the sun in brilliancy professor myers says that the explosion that would occur it if 41 twenty foot baloon were employed would cause the most terrific report ever beard on the earth in the experiment to be performed in texas there will be bombs of dynamite carried up by kites and exploded in the air and mortars will discharge large quantities of giant powder professor myers has shipped to texas the most unique outfit ever got together in the world it is a complete laboratory to be used outside of doors for the man of all the gases and chemicals to be usel usei in the experiments the most ingenious and practical air ship ever constructed is that invented by professor carl myers which he be calls his sky bicycle air ship it is operated by a screw which revolves a sail much as a screw propeller acts in the water the machinery is held in the air by a cigar shaped balloon which can be guided through the air with the greatest ease |