The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-27
LOTS OF cRoTs; SUMMER COLD.
Weather Predictions from Cornneids and the
Behavior or tho Moon.

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Behavior or tho Moon.
MILFORD. Pa, juno 26.-"I took q drive out
In the country the other day" said the rural
philosopher. land l was sorry TO see 80 many
crows in the cornfelds.'
Bad for the farmer, oh T.
Bad for tho farmeri Bad for the farmer
how r.
why. because tho Gro ws are pulling up all
his corn"
"Bahl Pulling up all his nothing! That'san
idea that doesn't deserve recognition nowadays.
Crows don't flock into cornflelds to cat tho
farmers corn. They drop down to dig up tho
worms that are making way wi, b the farmers
corn. Wh'n IA crow pulls up n hill Of corn he
doesn't 10 1t because he wants the seed kernels
that are at the root Of it. He knows there is a
grub down there getting ready to devour the
young shoots. and he is after that grub"
well, but / don't see what difference it
makes to the farmer, SO long as the crow, In get
ting at tho destructive grub, destroys The hill of
corn. The hill Of corn is gone. just the same"
There you 80 That's the way all OF you anti
crow chaps argue! Can't you see further than
the end OF your nosei Ii the crow should let
that grub alone, the grub wouldn't only destroy
that hill of corn. but it would come up out of
the ground after doing it. soon become n winged
creature. which. flying about, would devote it's
week or SO of life to laying thousands of eggs.
every one OF which would become a grub next
year, ready TO dine on the farmers corn,
and go on with tho regular course of pro-
ducing more grubs. ad inhnitum. Suppose the
crows weren't on the lookout, anu maize them
selves busy digging up and .devouring these
grubs' Why. there wouldn't. BIO IA farmer any.
where with corn crop enough to make n pot Of
mush! And II there wasn't corn crop enough
TO make II 20; of mush, OF course there wouldn't
be enough to make even a quar-; Of You've
been in the blue Grass country. haven't YOU !
Well. there wouldn't be enough corn crop to
make even a quart OF what makes life in the
Blue Grass Country-and incidentally elsewhere
worth living
30 many crows in the cornticlds. Whyi Because
40 M ny crows in The corntclds Is a syn OF n cold
summer. and a cold summer isn't good Tor tho
fnrmcrs. Crows plentiful in cornfcl,is in early
june means a cold summer. | cant tel you
why. Crows know. Crows know almost every
thing. Bat I've noticed II. and never knew 1t
TO all. Fact. | assure you.
i've mott, ed other things about the weather.
a man needn't get fooled much on the weather
II he watches the sun and moon. Get on to he
new moon. II its horns hang up and down. you
you go to during the mouth. for hardly a day
will PISS without copious showers. III the horns
nre on the Level; yon,l have 70 carry the water
pot TO your garden or keen the hose turned on
town curing the month. Now. mind what told
moon get full in the south before s ptember.
just notice. II you do. then either the crow
this year. Whyi Because lots OF crows in the
corntclds early in June means a cold summer.
The moon getting full in tho south any time
during the summer means that there will be mt
least three wetk ks OF that month sweltering hot.
Sect Bo,h signs can't be right, coming in the
same season. Watch out. now. 1t may be
that the first new moon will be tho dry
weather one. In that case. II 1t fulls IN the
South. III have 10 fall back on the weather
time OF drought But YOU won't see the moon
get full in The South this summer. The crows
hive so ordered. Then. again. II the moon fulls
in the North. 1t me cans cold weather. That
you'll see the moon do. sure. The crows have
also so orr, rcd that.
1.-THE corn crop wasn't a failure, though. last
year, 80 far as I've heard. AMI speaking OF TINT
Blue Grass country, will YOU Thought so
Come along!