If the first thunder of the year happens when the moon is in the sign Aries, the herbs and grass will be plentiful. If it is in Taurus the moon is at the first thunder, the hills will be more fruitful than the lowlands, and the dry ground better than the wet ground, and the sheep and the wine will be plentiful. If it is in Gemini the moon is at that time, bread and water and hail and peas will be plentiful, but the birds will not be so. If it is in Cancer it is, there will be famine and commotion in the villages under the dominion of that sign, and worms will do damage to the corn and the fruit in the lowlands, and water will be plentiful. If it is in Leo, there will be strife between kings, living will be dear, and important personages will die that year. If it is in Virgo, enemies and spies will be plen- tiful, and many of the large cattle will die. If it is in Libra, the beginning of the year will be dry, and its end wet, and food will be dear. If it is in Scorpio, wine will be plentiful, many of the fish and sheep will die, and the women will lose children dead before their birth, and powerful and mighty winds will not be lacking that year. If it is in Sagittarius it is, water will be moderate and profitable, fruit scarce, divisions plentiful between the people of one house and one village. If it is in Capricorn the moon is, the people will be melancholy, and there will be plagues in the countries which are under the dominion of that sign. If it is in Aquarius it is, the water will be plentiful, there will be trouble and terror in the villages,
That the husbandman may have full fruit as regards his labour, let him take care to sow the seed and the spores at the crescent of the moon, and when it is in the sign of Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Libra and Capricorn, and he will see wonderful fruit by reason of that.
That it may be known from year to year which of the grains will be most plentiful and profitable [...] a certain author writes, as Samoranus says in his book [...] asking to sow three or four grains of each kind of grain, in a good and wet ground, a month before the dog days, and the grain which shows itself best on the first day of the dog days, that is the best to sow, and will be most plentiful the coming year; and the grain which shows itself worst and grows most withered on the same day, will have least fruit that year.