 He conducted dozens of experiments with the cloudbuster , calling his research " Cosmic Orgone Engineering . " During a drought in 1953 , two farmers in Maine offered to pay him if he could make it rain to save their blueberry crop . Reich used the cloudbuster on the morning of 6 July , and according to Bangor 's Daily News – based on an account from an anonymous eyewitness who was probably Peter Reich – rain began to fall that evening . The crop survived , the farmers declared themselves satisfied , and Reich received his fee . 
