PHASES OF FARM LIFE 



wind, rain, frost ! Nothing will take the various 

 social distempers which the city and artificial life 

 breed out of a man like farming, like direct and lov- 

 ing contact with the soil. It draws out the poison. 

 It humbles him, teaches him patience and reverence, 

 and restores the proper tone to his system. 



Cling to the farm, make much of it, put yourself 

 into it, bestow your heart and your brain upon it, 

 so that it shall savor of you and radiate your virtue 

 after your day's work is done! 



" Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, 

 and look well to thy herds. 



" For riches are not forever; and doth the crown 

 endure to every generation ? 



" The hay appeareth, and the tender grass show- 

 eth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered. 



" The Iambs are for thy clothing, and the goats 

 are the price of the field. 



"And thou shalt have goat's milk enough for 

 thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the 

 maintenance for thy maidens.'* 



