Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1895 — Influence of the Moon on Plants. [ARTICLE]

Influence of the Moon on Plants.

Tho agricultural traditions of the influence of the moon on vegetation are no longer scoffed at by true scientists. Many of them are absurd, bat underlying them is what some now consider a general principle that the moon produces air currents as it does sea currents or tides, and that through this Influence on the weather it exerts the marked influence on vegetable growth with which tradition always credited it. Science is slowly learning that it will never do to close its eyes to any tradition of tho general experience of oractical men, however unlearned.