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Algernon Roberts, page 62. Sowed on field, light loam and fiin- 
. ty gravel. Improvement percepti- 
ble on clover—but injured by blue 
/ grass. On orchard—ground in til- 
lage 60 years. Surface loam; un- 
der stratum clay. Great improve- 
ment in crops of both clover and 
timothy,—but on clover most.— 
Young apple trees highly bene- 
fitted. No difference in improve- 
ment on the different soils.— 
Stiff loam. Age of moon®* hav- 
ig effect, a mere chimera. On 
land cleared 90 years: great be- 
nefit. Peach trees benefitted.— 
Sown on mixed grass-lay—water- 
ed meadow. Parts stagnated water; 
—results. Indian corn benefitted. 
No improvement on buckwheat. 
Does little for natural grass. Blue 
grass overruns clover, and plais- 
* Plaister is so nregular in its phenomena, that it often unaccountably fails, or surprisingly size- 
ceeds. Many attribute this to the times of sowing ; according to the age,—increase or decrease, of 
the moon. Whatever success or failure they experience, at any particular times of the moan’s pha- 
ses, or situations, a general rule is formed, and fixes faith. The p/aister must be sown by the alme- 
nack ; because, in its irregular operations, it happened to succeed, at a favourite time. So of all 
crops, of every species ; bleeding, and surgical operations on animals, setting of fences, and plant- 
ing of trees. Mr. Roberts risks, with those who are goyerned by such “ chimeras,” the eredit of his 
other facts, by denying the orthodoxy of this indulgence in lunology. 
A worthy old German told me, in the presence, and much to the edification of several of his 
neighbours, who were great believers in the moon, that our elections never went right, at the wrong 
time of the moon. Lasked him, if he meant the full and change? He replied,—no. The sign should 
be in the head and heart “ das haupt und hertz 3 “ wnd nicht in den bauch, und die schaam 3 oder 
die arme und hande :” and not in the belly, or the secrets, or the arms and hands. Whether my old 
friend (who shewed how the signs governing those parts, influenced the actions and conduct o! 
men) spoke seriously, or sarcastically, it would be as well (if we had the option) to leave the moon 
and the signs, in possession of agricultural influences, exclusively. In other matters, neither the 
signs, nor the sympathies, could be adjusted to general satisfaction. This shews, however, to what 
lengths vagaries are carried. 
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