Man In The Moon, A Truck Gardener? 1921

On: By: Romeyn

(Note: Truck Farm – A small farm producing vegetables for commercial sale, usually to local markets.)

WE have all seen the Man In In the Moon. So we know there is a man. But is he alive? And is he a truck gardener? That’s some thing different again.

Well, Prof. William II. Pickering of Harvard says there is vegetable life on the moon. He doesn’t say there are cultivated crops, but he insists on the lunar vegetation. And he takes particular pains not to say that there is intelligent animal life on the moon. One thing is sure Professor Pickering is one of the greatest living astronomers and has been studying the moon pretty steadily for two years. Continue reading “Man In The Moon, A Truck Gardener? 1921” →