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same business again, ought to give hope and encouragement to 

 farmer's boys. A farm will not run itself; a lazy man will never get 

 rich, a man who will not work his brain will fail ; a man who will not 

 save, never will have property. Nature holds justice above generos- 

 ity. She gives every man just about what he earns by his own per- 

 sonal efforts. Some men cheat her for a time, but she has ways of 

 punishing her children that make things even. — Rural New Yorker.- 



The Agricultural Gazette (England) prints a number of maxims 

 which if fixed in the memory, should possess a money value : 



"For age and want save while you may, 

 No morning sun lasts a whole day." 



"Frugality is an estate alone." 



'•The early sower never borrows from the late one." 



"It is better to have one plow goin^- than two cradles." 



"He has a hole beneath his nose that all his money runs into." 



"He that has it and will not keep it ; 

 He that wants it and will not seek it ; 

 He that drinks and is not dry, 

 Shall want money as well as I." 



"He that gets money before he gets wit, 

 Will be but a short time master of it." 



STARVATION AND HIGH CULTURE. 



Mr. Norton Stated at a meeting of the New Jersey Horticultural 

 Society, says Orchard and Garden^ that a peach orchard near Trenton 

 had suflfered all the ills a peach orchard is heir to ; he thought it died 

 of actual starvation. There never was a fair crop. The orchard passed 

 into new hands, the old and dead trees were removed, the poor ground 

 was enriched and 5,000 trees planted. Among the fertilizers used was 

 a ton of kainit last spring, and two tons of bone, thoroughly intermixed 

 and incorporated with the soil. The result is stated to be marvelous ;. 

 and instead of the sickly trees of the former orchard, they are vigorous, 

 healthy and loaded with beautiful fruit exciting general admiration. 



A FREAK OF VEGETATION. 



In the mountains of Venezuela grows a remarkable tree. It is 

 found in rooky places, at heights of about half a mile. It is a stupid 

 looking tree enough at first sight. It is lofty and slender, and has stiff' 

 leaves that grow a foot or more in length. It looks much of the time 

 as if it were dead. In those regions there is a wet and a dry season. 



