With one smoke bomb, costing 300 francs or £3 12s, vintners in France can throw a smoke screen, thirty feet high, over twenty acres of vines. Such a cloud guards the vines against spring frosts, and because of its sulphate of ammonia content, assists fertilisation.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 147, 23 May 1934, Page 2
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