| Show VA R n an qa 6 Z 1 the T p U al i d 11 W ZU means ot powerful ne odthe the nai per strem of ea turned out to aut verse wt 4 no and hall a storms rn m by veau ahe upper udder currents t aar ra s the rd me iraln T producing N CM carried Aar ried dwin ont ln this countr Y h gm for thi exposition of ex pert menu r carried out in pose e of 0 p ro t valuable vineyards the devas devastation ta 0 nf othall hall storms ot of f frequent occurrence iu of at shw fon un try mr albert burgomaster ot of he Stein nark mark aus ATO irla ow owa no situated on an the southern of the bacher moun tatar a ailcy often visited by destructIve lail storms Accor according dizz to con coant sul germain at having expended a good deal of money and ana labor on en tze improvement of his bis innas and in cen choice cuttings from which to rf raise axe his bi sTines vines he began to expert ment anent to af pf protect ma ids crops chopa front from their worst pleni n ma nall hall at fast he purchased civan iced iron v wire netting and stretched it over tite acres acrea of his best beat vines but found the scheme chenie f too expensive for general application he therefore concluded to try the hooting or explosive systems to scatter the and drive away approaching hall ban or beant r rain atonna he erected alz alx stations on tle the six most mont prominent summits our bar run bunding runding ding the locality and com commanding anding a territory about two miles in extent these stations built of wood shelter ten heavy Inor mortara each in the neighborhood of every tation station Is a callin cabin in which the necessary powder Is stored A corps 0 of f volunteers consisting of neighbor b who are anre also owners of small vineyards have hate been trained to handle the mortars it at the slightest indication of an approaching pro pron aching ebing storm the mortars mortara are immediately manned and loaded with about four our and a quarter ounces of powder i each jeveli and sh choo toting ting commences simultaneously and continues regularly out of 0 the sixty mortars until the cloade nave bave scattered and the storm has blown over these e experiments x ments rens nere anxiously watched by the erti citizens ot of windisch last summer at the approach of threatening black rionda clouds oer the summits of the bacher mountains lna a signal was aa given alven and all the mortars were blied flied off and the continuous detonations deto nations I 1 in n it a rew few moments caused a sudden reaction 0 11 in the elroda tb ethod tz opened ance the month of the enoel etin bucaran to riu the onn of tl n expanding grad anui 11 of almi clonda s tt 4 ana feared ea arar no BO hauer hall or e ena A caddeo et tala c toe wae experience esperie ziM drw waar cone through vak latt anmer im I 1 alcele albala exception P i a 5 Z I 1 |
