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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



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MORNING HYMN. 



" In the morning will I direct uiy prayer iinlo tliee." 

 — Psalms. 



Once more llie dawning liglit nfday melts in tile lonely 



sea — 

 Father in Heaven ! All gratefully my heart 1 ,okg up to 



tliee, 

 To bless iliee for thy watchful care throughout the long 



night liours, 

 For all the mercies o'er my lot thy daily goodness show- 

 ers, 

 For thou hast glorified my path with looks and words or- 



love, 

 And all that fills my heart with joy is granted from 



above. 

 Oh! countless are the blessings which thy bounteous 



hand hath given. 

 And therefore do I bless thy name, God of the earth and 



Heaven ! 

 How beautiful around my steps this flowery world doth 



lie! 

 How gloriously thy hand hath placed the lights along 



the sky ! 

 The very birds that throng tJie woods look up ador- 



ingiy. 

 And breathe from out jheir little breasts a song of praise 



to Ihce. 

 1 too would lift !fty voice on higk, and b'ess thy gracious 



care. 

 Oh ! look in mercy down, and send an answer to my 



prayer ; 

 And let the names that 1 would waft above the solemn 



skies, 

 The dearest to my soul on earth be precious in thine 



eyes. 

 Oh ! keep thine arm around them still in love where'er 



they go, 

 And let thy spirit light their way while wandering here 



below ; 

 And when at last they reach the shores of time's uneven 



sea, 

 Be thou their father, guide, and friend, throughout eter- 

 nity ! 

 Ediiiburg, \337. INEZ. 



JUI4Y 5. 18 'r. 



they depo.-iitod tlieir s|.!iwn. ':[|ie i-esuit was 

 awaited Coi- with consideralile interest as calculat- 

 ed to set at rest the disputed question. It ajipeais 

 by a letter Mr Buist has just received from his 

 correspondent there, that the e.vperiiiicut has heeii 

 successful. The suhjert is, tiio doiilit, of great in- 

 terest to those concerned with the fisheries, and 

 those who art curious in this department of nat- 

 ural history. The letter states: "Our last year's 

 planting of salmon has returned to the same riv- 

 ers this year. Jn the cmmnencement of close 

 tune we carried salmon to one of the rivers where 

 we put them last year, and I. ft two of these riv- 

 ers without putting any into them, to siscertain 

 whether those salmon did or did not return to the 

 rivers where they weresjiawned ; and at the usu. 

 lal time of spawning ; we found a few pair in each 

 of these river.-i, where never a salmon was seen 

 hefurc the fish we put into them last year, so that 

 we can have no douht of every river having its 

 own hreed of salmon, and that they wili retiini to 

 their own rivers unless interrupted on the pas- 

 sage, or encouraged into other rivers hv an uini- 

 sual quantity of water. I never believed in this 

 do<-trine until I had the e.vperience of it from the 

 different sizes we have of the tnanv rivers in the 

 north. ( hnve studied all this with great care, 

 and I may say now, 1 am a complete disciple til 

 these hahits of the salmr.n." _ PcM Constitu- 

 tional. 



ed than their pericrfmiiims, and who mete out to 

 him his starvling pittance with the unwilling hand 

 of an upper servant dealing out cold pancakes and 

 .'ansage ends to a heggar. See him place both 

 hands upon his snapping brain, as the fire of fan. 

 cy darts front Apollo's mount upon his wither- 

 ing soul. Yes, "how easy he writes !"—JE;Wan. 

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The Government of the Boy's Asylum and Farm Srhool 



I lliompsou's Island, have seivral good ho\s aii>„. n ' 



1 vears old, for whom situations aie^u^'",.;': i', Ue'^^i" "^ 



vuh far,„ers or meohanu-s, lo be indented .ill u,ey a?e twen' 



lyoneye.irs ol ao^e. - "<^.r urc iwen- 



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Moses Gram, No. .0, Union Street. 

 I'd lard S. Eand, No. '6, Court St 



Boston, Alay 10, 18S7, aa 



.\NECDOTt; OF THE Sahio.v. — A Very singular 

 am! ine.vplicable instinct has been ascribed to the 

 salmon, but which has Wr.n doubted and dis|iuted 

 by many, even of those who have turned their r.t- 

 tention to the subject. The fact to which we al- 

 lude is, the propensity of salmon lo relnrn from 

 the sea to the identical rivers wherein they were 

 spawned. This has now been establisheil beyond 

 the possibility of doubt. In the report of oiir 

 townsman, Mr Robert Buist, superintendent of the 

 river Tay, under the act for the protection of the 

 breed of salmon, given in to the meeting of heri- 

 tors in October last, he noticed a curioins experi- 

 ment made last breeding season in certain small 

 fishing rivers in Sutlierlandshire. I'hese rivers 

 disembogue themselves into Loch Shii^und no 

 salmon were ever known to have existeiT in their 

 waters before ; but as they seemed to be well 

 adapted for breeiling this species of f'sh, the Duke 

 of Sutherland, the prot)rietc)r of these' rivers, re- 

 solved to have tliern planted with snhnon. Ac- 

 cordingly several pair were carried from other 

 rivers to which they Wi;re iiidigenoiis, and placed 

 in tli(!se diirin-^ the breeeding season, and there 



Writers.— "With what ease he writes!" said 

 a young lady, as she laid down one of Washine- 

 ton Irving's volumes. Straightway we made ifp 

 our mind that the young laily did not know what 

 she was talking about. Had she said " How easy 

 it is to read his works," we would have sympa- 

 thized with her amazingly. Then finding we 

 could not make a satisfactory reply without^com- 

 promising our honesty, we t'ell to making a com- 

 parison in silence. The steamboat glides majes- 

 tically and gracefully through the waters, but it is 

 no e(7s_i/jBoi('frthat gives to the water traveller her 

 steady and rapid motion. It is true she is taste- 

 fully painted and gilded; her cabins are plea.sant, 

 and her prow is decorated with specimens of the 

 sculptor's art. But descend with the engineer to 

 his fiery domain, swelter there in the burning 

 pit ; see the heated grease, and listen lo the burst- 

 ing steam ; see the tremendous power of fire and 

 water combined, mull the strained and groaning 

 boiler threatens to burst asunder, and deluge the 

 'leeks with the heated fluid. You will perceive 

 ihat^die, although a mild and pleasant damsel 

 has a confounded rough old father. Little dieami 

 ed the admirer of Irving how nnich asonizing toil 

 was required to beget that ease, which she so 

 much delighted in. Yet she «as not alone in her 

 error. How many a publisher thus lightly esti- 

 mates the labor of his weary author ! How many 

 a tradesman smiles at the trifling emphymenis of 

 the man of genius! We have been ma,l ,noM«h 

 to eat an oyster supper when We have heanl the 

 pea.sant draw an invidious compaiison between 

 himselt and the poor wight who.se intellect sup- 

 idied him with bread. "I get my living by the 

 sweat of my brow," saiil he, " while you are tri- 

 fling away your time with books and papers." 



Yes, see that pale and hungrv being startled 

 from his task by the sound of the midnight bell 

 See how his fingers grasp the pen convulsively, 

 as he fears his task will not be accoMiplished in 

 time— a slave to men whose pockets are better lin- 



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