CUTTING TIMBER AT THE TIME OF THE FULL MOON.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, —I have been much interested in the letters which have appeared in the Spectator regarding the cutting of timber at the time of the full moon. When in British Guiana some years ago I came closely in touch with balata- and rubber- bleeders and with timber-fellers. The former often told me that the best time to bleed the trees in order to obtain a full flow of latex was during the approach of full moon, after which the yield decreased. A prominent prospector with a world- wide experience, with whom I discussed the point, informed me that that was so, and that bamboo, if cut during the period of the moon's decline, quickly deteriorated. I have never heard any scientific explanation for these phenomena.— Inverness. (Editor Northern Chronicle).
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