Show LUNAR SUPER SITSON AND POTATOES after exhaustive in po tato planting the united de apartment part ment of agriculture his to sav that in season one time is as as another to put potatoes in the ground almost everyone even if he were not reared m the has hard of the i lea about planting po tatos in the dark of the moon the field workers of the department of agriculture have been investigating he matter and ha e found that seventy five per cent of the farmers of thia eelig ite aed country put in their crops and do a good many other tb about the farm governed solely by th moons phases many farmers will tell you that if you plant potatoes nota toes 11 the hark of the moon they will run to tubero and if in the 1 of the moon they will iun to tops and crops are planted accordingly there is usually d basis in fact for any superstition and the moon super station is so deeply rooted that a num ber of experts from the 0 of while going up ard down and across the land have made it their business to study th question and see whether might not be a germ of truth or at least some rason bov the general belief that the moon s phases have an effect on animae in 1 vegetable life they have concluded after pit nt investigation that the moon myth is one of the comparatively few myths date back to pure savagery and has abdol bitely not an atom of scientific foundation on which to s and the agricultural experiment stations all over the country have been defying this superstition supers titian for several vears and raising juat as good chopa i the moon was one wa as when it was the other therefore once and for all it is conclusively decided that there is nothing to the theory that potatoes should planted in the dark of the moon all of th s may not seem serious investigate invest igat on for a great gover mient to undertake but the worl nevertie ne less has been interesting to the fists and if they luve succeeded in weaning a few from the old super sti eions about planting potatoes the have been well paid for their work scientific american |