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The still small voice in autumn's hush 

 Yon maple wood the burning bush. 



For still the new transcends the old, 

 In signs and tokens manifold ; 

 Slaves rise up men, the olive waves 

 With roots deep set in battle graves. 



Through the harsh noises of our day 

 A low, sweet prelude finds its way ; 

 Through clouds of doubt and creeds of fear 

 A light is breaking calm and clear. 



Henceforth my heart shall sigh no more 

 For olden time and holier shore ; 

 God's love and blessing, then and there. 

 Are now, and here, and everywhere. 



VEGETABLES. 



OHIO EXPERIMFNTS. 



Experiments at the Ohio Station, the latest official report of 

 which has just been published, showed that potatoes gave much 

 larger yields in two successive years, with whole tubers' than with 

 cutting to one eye — 302 and 2G4 bushels per acre for the first 

 method, against 164 and 135 bushels for the second ; ripening was 

 nine days earlier with the wliole seed. All was planted at the same 

 distance apart, twelve inches in the row ; it is remarked that the 

 one-eyed pieces might be planted closer, and the seed saved when, 

 scarce and costly. With different fertilizers on this crop one 

 remarkable result was a heavier product with coal ashes than with 

 hen or stable manure, superphosphate or lime. A soil that can be 

 so improved by a mere mechanical alteration, which, agricultural 

 chemists think, is all that could be gained by the addition of the 

 coal ashes, would not seem to be well adapted for experiments with 

 fertilizers. In these tests no unmanured plots were left for stand- 

 ards of comparison. — N. Y. Tribune. 



' THE LARGEST YIELD OF POTATOES. 



No farmer has yet learned what the largest yield of any crojj 

 may be, and few have learned how very largely the yields of our 

 common crops may be increased. The ag. editor of the iY. Y. 



