Show THE WEATHER the month of march was quite ordinary little of the high winds that the month has the credit of precipitation 1 13 3 making in all since january 1 farmers re port the land in better condition for cropping than for years past in bloom near the end of the month but the hard frost of the ird was rough on them many people think however how everi that all were not killed I 1 am in receipt of a signed article from the chief of the weather bureau at washington D C warning against weather forecasting fallacies he says pretensions ot of this t it octet acter meet with a certain credence because there are a number of people who still cling to the ancient belief in the influences of the moon on the growth and development of crops and to the idea that the weather conditions depend upon planetary and astrological combinations the chief goes on to explain that the government has all the up to date appliances that science has been able to bring out on the subject of forecasting the weather and that it is doing all in its power to help instruct the people along the these lines he also shows the absurdity of long distance forecasting of weather conditions I 1 remember reading many years ago of a number of savona savans in france who had made a study of the moons moona influence on vegetation and after due consideration they arrived at the conclusion that the moon had nothing to do with it ALEX MATHESON vol observer |