Show MOON INFLUENCE IS ABSURD phases of the great night illuminator ll have nothing to do with crops say scientists in the farmers almanacs you win will find tables of dates proper for planting crops killing hilling togs bogs and so on based upon the phases of the moon and the rural new yorker is authority tor for the statement that many farmers still adhere faithfully to this ancient system to show them how absurd tills this Is it prints the following statement hy by C F marvin chief of the united states weather bureau it is the general belief of scientists that the moon has no appreciable influence on temperature rainfall or any other weather element or on plant growth plant growth depends upon temperature light humidity and plantford plant food both in the soil and in the air and its availability obviously the moon neither mellows the ground nor fertilizes it neither does it alter the composition of the atmosphere hence it affects neither the mechanical condition of the soil sell nor the kind or quantity of available plant tood it if the moon has any influence on plant growth it would seem that it must exert this influence through its light experiment however shows that when a plant is so shadowed that it gets only one one hundredth of normal daylight it grows but little better than it does in absolute darkness full daylight is about times brighter than full moonlight hence one one hundredth of daylight already too feeble to stimulate appreciably plant ac is still times brighter than alian full moonlight alight the conclusion is thit that even in respect to light stimulus the moons influence on plant growth Is ia wholly negligible |