2062. What is the use of March winds?
2063. They dry the soil (which is saturated by the floods of February), break up the heavy clods, and fit the land for the seeds which are committed to it.
2064. Why is it said that "March comes in like a lion?"
2065. Because it comes in with blustering east winds, so essential to dry the soil, which would otherwise rot the seed committed to it.
2066. Why does "March go out like a lamb?"
2067. Because the water, evaporated by the high winds, falls again in showers to fertilize the earth, and breaks the violence of the winds.