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Show H DELU8ION8 ABOUT CONCUSSION. B r - Of attempts to change the weath- B' cr, rainmaking has been generally B regarded as a delusion, and now ii K is proven that bombilring as a means B of preventing hail is quite useless. B "Hail shooting" had gained the con- B iidonce of vine growers in the Alp; B t Bncu nn extent that in 1902 the B Italian minister of agriculture np- H pointed a commission to make con- B elusive tests of its efficacy. In the B ' five, years that have passed since B then many experiments have been B carefully watched, and the commis- B. sion reports that shooting the clouds B v had absolutely no effect, and that B protection must be sought along B wholly different lines. |