=The Moon Has No Influence on the Weather.= The moon used to be the farmer’s most valued friend as a forecaster of the weather and as a guide in the planting of crops, but a higher order of intelligence is causing this fallacy to pass away. The moon’s nearness to the earth and the fact that its phases occur in about seven days, which is about twice the period of storm recurrence, in the minds of many have endowed it with potency in the influencing of our weather. Rain may occur on the same day of the week for several weeks in succession, but only occasionally, while the moon is constantly progressing from one phase to another. The few cases that prove the mistaken theory are taken as proof conclusive, while the many cases that do not prove acceptable to the moon forecaster are ignored and not mentioned to his friends nor even acknowledged to himself. One is reluctant to have a belief disproved, no matter how ridiculous it may be. In fact, the more untenable it is, the more tenaciously some adhere to it, as though they were loyally standing by an old friend who had made mistakes, but who still was good at heart. The attraction of the moon, because of its nearness and notwithstanding its small mass, is far more potent in the raising of the tides of the ocean than is the sun, but its attraction on our atmosphere produces a tide of only four thousandths of an inch of the barometer, an influence that is shadowy and without the least influence in causing storms, or changes of any kind in the weather; and there is no possible way in which the moon could influence the germination of seed or the growing of crops. =Equinoctial Storm.= As the summer wanes the Lows become more pronounced and the sporadic showers give place to general rain storms along in September. There is no objection to these storms being known as “Equinoctial”, except that any date in the latter half of September is as liable to show a beginning of these storms as is the 21st or the 22d. The equinox simply marks the middle period in the transition from one type of weather to another.