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  • From: "John M. Moser" <joma AT direcpc.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Woolly bears
  • Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 19:46:43 -0400




> Hello -- I can never remember how the saying goes regarding woolly bears
> and the amount of brown v. black and am trying to figure out just what
> mother nature has in store for us this winter. Weathermen/women are just
> about as useful as elected officials (gummit). Having seen several today
> (w b's), I would greatly appreciate y'alls thoughts on the brown/black
> theory. Thanks.

Hi Tom,

As I remember the number of rings or segments equate roughly to the weeks of
winter. Black rings are wintery weather, brown are mild. We're seeing
Black -Brown - Black here in roughly equal segments.

John Moser
Fleetwood, NC





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