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Show FARMING BY THE MOON. Farming dates back to a lime long H before there were calendars. Priests H nd monks were the few people who H possessed much education. They de voted a rreat deal their lime to tbe study of aalrooom and pose?nej H a fair knowledge of the subject H Farmers came to these men for ad H v ice In their soil operation. When H they wanted to plant corn or wheat or H iia'ever the crop might be. the only H definite guides tbe monks could gieo H i hem were to plant during the rary tug moon stages. The moon wu the H ' W hen the modern calendar was In H troduced It was uaed by townspeople 1 Many tarmers still use the mooe ' .gnr Tbe custom has been handed B down from one generation to aaothe. H Is In use H ungtnal purposes of the signs of the H moon were in time forgotten or mis in iterpreted and the farmer- began to I i ascribe to the moon supernatural pow ers. It was In this wa that 'be more re , cent generations accepted ihe moon doctrine and still cling to it in the presenl day. From planting crops the doctrine 'spread to thelaughtei of animals, even to the setHnc of fence posts, "hearing or sheep cutting and pulling uf ihe teeth of domestic animals and |