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It's well known fact that there IS bv n,nv .,noIo
IN extraordinary influence attributed 10 the moon IN
agriculture and other concerns While the suo :. re
po"eilui klng q Day, whose genial influence II %


anu indispensable in vegetation IS little re-
garoeo, homage Is paid 10 the moon little sho az
that adOration offered 10 by our remote nagaD an
cestors' the Saxons, vino reckoned it among their
gods


The almenack is searched, and the signs 50 called
most carefully attended to- by many farmers II cor
aucung the various branches Of agriculture and in
Many ol the concerns Of domestic life Nothing =
undertaken without consulting this oracle the nbsepe
oi the moon are diligently noticed; and hear and colJ
ram ana drought are supposed 10 be dependant ON
It's changes we are pleased to observe that that ven
eraDle patriot, the Hon. Timothy Pickering has seen
ht to notice these popular preudices this relic IF Pa
gan idolatry - 80


The following are Mr.. Pickerings remarks, pubsh-
"a originally IN the Massachusetts Agricultural Re-
poSitory "


Having noticed the folly Of regardpo the r,oor :,
relation to the time of sowing pease add. thar ,he
idea o. It's influence in auy ether operations in bne
oahdTy, ought TO be discarded II il a mjscbe vors
suppostlon Kept alive by tradition and
anu supported ny the idle remarks and representations
~ a.manacks. The figure of a man marked with rho
signs, and the representations Of tile weather oI,
10 oe eXpunged and every well disposed almanack-
maker "ouIu 0anlsh them if he knew the Injuries tie
occasion, by misleading the farmer in any branch of
lIidl economy once heard some farmers speaking
OIL spreading manure grass land In the sprno sa 9
very graveiy that it should not be done when thc
hoihs Oh ihe moon were turned upwards for then the
hSue' instead OF sinking into the ground wo4M rise
win the grass and 20 good. On the contrary they
Genuoned one farmer who would not SET up hrs worm
e"ce when She horns Of the moon pointed dowuwards
of then the stones placed under the angles Of the
would SINK and the lower rails touch the ground and
TOT ANA an industrious farmer in another state told
me ne mad slaughtered fine heifer calf which he
Ist ~ - "a'e id'Seu because II was dropped in the
oaik OF the Noon If had not Witnessed these face


sh0Ild nave hardly thought il possible thai such III
ocuons notions could have been entertained by any
persons "ho Claimed share Of common sense. Ever
ue c.Fhses q the weather 50 generally supposed 70
no influenced by the phases of ;he moon 49, Mo-,
-ouha oy ong course Of ohsevatio,s: 10 hapren ~ all
Ps"'s4 . me m6on. APPEARANCE indiscnrirateiy -