American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-06-08
CANTON. MISS. SATURDAY, JUNE 8. 1872.

come change of the weather wi II the
change of the moon. Now, as the moot
changes once a week, a change of weather
must come somewhere near a change OF
/ the moon. But take IA long series of oh
| servations, such as those made by the
agents for the Smithsonian lnstitute-ob
servations which give the state of the
thermometer, direction of the wind
| character of the clouds and fall of rain in
a particular place noted three times 8
| day for years, and by comparing the
changes of weather with changes of the
moon, we find that there is no traceable
connection between the two-that some
times the weather changes with the moon
and just as often does not.
The moon changes on the same day all
over the earth. A change of weather
| that if the moon and the weather run to
gether on the Atlantic coast they would
not be on the Rocky Mountains or the
| Pacific coast. Again when the weather
! is very wet on the Atlantic slope it may
| be very dry in the Mississippi Valley. II
it changes from wet to dry in one place
it should change from dry to wet in the
other People forget that the moon
changes elsewhere than in their own town
ship.
Says some old farmer, at will turn
warm next week, Tuesday, for there is a
change of the moon" "Turn warm
where % we ask him. "Why turn warm
here?" But the moon will change up in
Alaska-will it turn warm there -? And
it has already turned warm down in
TeXas-has the moon already changed
there, or does not Texas weather go by
the moon.
Says one old observer, az have noticed
for more than forty years that the first
= frll Io
full moon.' But the first frost does not
come at the same time in Montreal, Phila-
delphia and Savannah; and if the first
frost in Montreal comes on a half moon,
the first in New York could not be before
the first full moon, and Richmond would
have to wait till another moon before it
could have frost, and the first frost
would not come in Cuba before the next
July.
Oceans should be planted in the new of
the moon," says some old fellow who has
had experience" But beans should not
be planted in Missouri at the same time
as in Arkansas or Louisiana, and if each
latitude must wait for new moon for
beam planting, the people up in Dakota OF
British America would not get in their
beans at all.
The 2Sth of the month, -" says another,
"shows what is to be the prevailing
weather Tor the next month. But Wnlle
ago the almanac was changed from old
style to new style, and now the 2Sth comes
at different time by eleven days from
what it did before. Is it just as reliable
to reckon from as it was before? We
reckon it is.
If the new moon is tipped up SO that
you can hang a powder-horn on it, the
month will be a dry one-or wet one
the weather prophets are not agreed
which.
When the sun crosses the line, on the
Goth of March or September, we shall
have an equinoxial storm, it is said. Now
we are apt to have storms in March, and
one may come somewhere near the Goth,
but it may have as much connection with
st. Patrick's day as with the suns cross
ing the line.
Let man take notes of the matter for
a series of years and set them down on
paper; he will be able to test these signs.
But the hap-hazard recollections of an
old sailor or an old farmer are no guide.
He thinks he has observed, when in fact
he has paid no strict attention to the mat
ter at all.-E,tchange.