Show THE muon AM AND TA TAA thea A ta weather T HE R 3 I 1 THE tre effects of the moon on je ivi ivl weather ather are strongly dis dib many scientific men and as strenuously dusl y maintained main maln taine d by a lare larg large largo number 1 of pratt practical ical leal ob observers senus semus the apparent results of the are re treated by ISY the former farmei va as mere coincidences edl egl and and by the latter iatter AS i palpable effects of lunar causes apse s ve ye do donot nott pretend to be able tode todo to decide cide clde between the professional philosophers alid and the devotees of moon mba will direct att ten to the following guide to observers of the moons changes in ju relation to to the weather er furnished by a correspond 1 dent of the cincinnati ai we perhaps some soine of olour our meaders will watch vatch and report r L the late marshal Bugeaud when only a captain during the spanish spahl ih campaign aa laign under napoleon he the t first once red read in a manuscript which i b I 1 cli cil by jay chance fell into his hands tha hat t from observations made in england EnLy larid and florence i during a period feriod of fifty years the following law respecting the weather had been proved to hold true teven jeven eleven times time s out of twelve the weather remains the same during the whole moon asit as it is the fifth day if it jt continues unchanged over the sixth day and nine mine times butof out of twelve like the fourth if the sixth dy day res resembles nibles the fourth from 1815 to tp 1830 31 bugeaud devoted his attention dlo Jo agriculture and guided by the tiie law just mentioned avoided the losses lowes in irk hay time and vintage which many of ot his neighbors experienced when governor of algiers he never meven entered a campaign till after the sixth day tay of the moon his neighbors at and his lieutenants in algiers would often exclaim gow dow luciy lucky ho he is in the weather what they regarded a as mere chanco chance was i the result of observation li in counting ebu the fourth and tind sixth days was particular in beginning from the exact time pt of shenew moon and adding three quarters of an hour for each day for the greater length of the lunar as compared with the solar war day |