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Show Lemon Weather Maker Faced by the bBghtlng effects of frost, west eoast lemon growers have Installed huge blowing machines ma-chines that whip up warmer temperatures. tem-peratures. The result is better tree ripened lemons at lower cost. When the ground temperature drops to SI degrees, an alarm rings in tht house, and the steel clad wind machines ma-chines are rolled Into the orchard. Each propeller in ths machlns is driven by a gasoline engine mounted mount-ed on a revolving steel platform high above ti e trees. Temperatures soon climb four or five degrees by the action of the wind blowers. |