Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1918 — Frost Not Due to Moon Phase; Watch the Weather Forecasts [ARTICLE]

Frost Not Due to Moon Phase; Watch the Weather Forecasts

The moon may be of tremendous importance to young folks hanging over the garden gate or to night marauders with an Incurable thirst for watermelons, but it should have no sinister significance to gardeners or farmers, observes an exchange. In some sections of the country prevails a popular belief that in the season when frost may be expected its occurrence lb largely influenced by the phase of the moon or other periodical phenomena. Careful tabulation of frost data and comparison with moon phases fall to disclose any such relation. All persons Interested are therefore cautioned to watch, not the moon, but the forecasts issued by the weather bureau.