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PRACTICAL FARMER, 



SPRING. 



Now the golden morn aloft 

 Waves her dew bespangled wing 



With vermici cheeks, and whisper soft, 

 She woos the tardy spring ; 



Till April starts and calls around 



The sleeping fragrance from the ground ; 



And lightly o'er the living scene, 



Scatters his freshest, tenderest green. 



Newborn flocks in rustic dance, 



Frisking ply their feeble feet ; 

 Forgetful of their wintery trance 



The birds his presence greets. 

 But chief the sky lark warbles high' 



His trembling thrilling ecstacy ; 

 And lessening from the dazzled sight, 

 Melts into air and liquid light. 



Rise, my soul, on wings of fire, 



Rise the raptuious choir among J 

 Hark ! 'tis nature strikes the lyre, 



And leads the general song; 

 Warm lei tlie lyric transport flow. 

 Warm as the ray that bids it glow. 

 And animates the vernal grove 

 With health and harmony and love. 



Yesterday the sullen year 



Saw the snowy whirlwind fly : 



Mute was the music of the ai^, 

 The herd stood drooping by ; 



Their raptures now that wildly flow, 

 No yesterday, no rrjorrow know; 



'Tis man alone that joy descries, 



With forward and reverted eyes. 



See the wretch that long has tost 



On the thorny bed of pain. 

 At length repair his vigor lost, 



And breathe, and walk again ; 

 The meanest floweret of the vale, 

 The simplest note that swells the gale,' 

 The common sun, the air, the skies, 

 To him are opening paradise. 



GOOD RTJIiES. 



Every action in company ought to be with some 

 sign of respect to those present. 



In the presence of others sing not to yourself with 

 a humming noise, nor drum with your fingers or 

 feet. 



Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others 

 Btanti, speak not when you should hold yoiu* peace, 

 and walk not when others stop. 



Be no flatterer, neither play with any one that 

 delights not to be pltiyed with. 



Read no letters, book or papers in company, but 

 when there is a necessity for doing it, you must ask 

 leave. Come not near the books nor writings of 



any one so as to read them unasked. Also, look 

 not nigh when another one is writing a letter. 



Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious 

 matters somewhat grave. 



Show not yourself glad at the misfortunes of 

 another, though he were your enemy. 



Undertake not to teach your equal an art he him- 

 self professes; it savors of arrogancy. 



They that are in dignity or office have, to all 

 places, precedency ; but whilst they are young, 

 they ought to respect those that are their equals in 

 birth or in other qualities, though they have no 

 public charge. 



It is good manners to prefer them to whom we 

 speak before ourselves, especially if they be above 

 us, with whom, in no sort, we ought begin. 



Take all admonitions thankfully, in whatsoever 

 manner given ; but afterwards, not being culpable, 

 take a time or place convenient to let him know it 

 that gave them. 



Mock not, nor jest at anything of importance ; 

 break no jests that are sharp biting and if you de- 

 liver anything witty and pleasant, abstain from 

 laughing thereat yourself. 



Wherein you reprove another, be unblamable 

 yourself, for example is more prevalent than pre- 

 cept. 



Use no re[)roachful language against one, neither 

 Curses nor reviling. — Washington. 



VAIiUABliE WORK ON AGRICULTURE. 



This Day published by Gko. C. Barrett, THE COM- 

 PLETE FARMER AND RURAL ECONOMIST. By T. 



G. Fessenden. Second edition, revised and improved by the 

 Author, U'ith considerable additions. 



The first ed'.tion was published last season, and the sale was 

 rapid beyond precedent for a work of tliis kind. The present 

 improved and stereotyped impression has still higher recom- 

 mendations to public patronage, and cannot fail to prove still 

 more useful to the community of cultivators. 



This work has met with decided and universal approbation 

 from the most competent judges. Among the written and 

 printed recommendatory notices are those of the Hon. John 

 LowELi. and Rev. Henry Colman. The Editors of the 

 New York Farmer, the New England Magazine, the Maine 

 Farmer, Loudon's Gardener's Magazine, ^c. have given favor- 

 able critiques of the Complete Farmer. We shall subjoin Mr 

 Lowell's notice, and propose in some future number to publish 

 those of the other gentlemen who have honored the work with 

 their approl)ation. 



"Roxbury, April 6, 183.5. 



" Having perused with attention the Complete Farmer and 

 Rural Economist, by Thomas G. Fessendcn, Esq. in its first 

 edition, and having recently revised it at his request, prepara- 

 tory to a second edition, I am of opinion that it is a valuable 

 compendium and useful work. Those who know that the sci- 

 ence of Agriculture is so extensive as to fill twelve quarto vol- 

 umes in the celebrated French work of the Abbe Rozier, and a 

 space not less in English works, will not expect in .such an a- 

 bridgemeut full details in any one branch of that extensive and 

 varied art. But I know of no abridged work in the French or 

 English languages which conveys more instruction in so small 

 a compass tlian this work of Mr Fessenden. 



m6 John Lowell." 



