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of grains and fruits, and which also explains to him the nature 

 of those oxydizing forces which are now, on this autumnal day, 

 so busily at work, to scorch and crumble them to powder. 

 There is time in the occupations of almost all for study and im- 

 provement, if they will but avail themselves of it. The avoca- 

 tion of the husbandman is very far from affording an exception 

 to this statement. It is with him as it is with every other per- 

 son in the community ; he must improve his leisure hours, he 

 must be diligent and studious ; the car of knowledge and prog- 

 ress is rapidly passing, and if he does not leap upon its platform 

 he is left behind. 



It does not wait for the indolent or the prejudiced. It is 

 like the great source of solar light ; it moves up from its eastern 

 bed in the early dawn, and does not tarry by the way, though a 

 universe of sluggards should slumber on until high noon. 



