DEVOTED TO AaRECUIiTDTlE, HORTICDTiTUKE, AJSTD KTNDEED ABTS. 



NEW SERIES. Boston, November, 1870. VOL. IV.— NO. 11. 



R. P. EATOK & CO., Publishers, 

 Office, 34 Merchants' Row. 



MONTHLY. 



SIMOIT BROWN, 



S. FLETCHER, 



J!fOVEMBBK. 



"Low the leaves lie in the forest, on the damp earth, 



brown and chill; 

 Gather near the evening shadows; Hark I the wind 



is eorrowing stiU. 

 Vanished are the pine-crowned mountains, hidden in 



a dusky cloud ; 

 Bee the rain, it faUeth even from the wan and dreary 



sky; 

 Rusheth on the swollen streamlet, willly whirling, 



f jaming by ; 

 And the branches, leafless, waving in the Fall wind, 



low are bowed." 



O V E M B E R ! 



the Month cf 

 Thanksgiving 

 Days ; the sea- 

 son of thanks- 

 giving hearts. 

 The crops are 

 harvested and 

 secured ; and 

 though drought, 

 or other causes, 

 may have cut 

 some of them 

 short, an abun- 

 dance for all, man and 

 beast, is left. 

 The terrible famines 

 which occasionally cut off the 

 people of other lands, will not 

 =^^^H probably be felt here. Our 

 country is so widely extended, that some por- 

 tion of it will always be blessed with abundant 

 harvests. If drought, insects or storms pre- 

 vent crops from maturing in this region, some 



other in the wide domain of our sister States 

 will have a surplus to spare. 



In earlier times, this might not have availed 

 us much ; but now that the country is threaded 

 with railroads and canals, transportation is so 

 rapid and cheap, that one portion of the 

 country can supply another and distant one 

 with the necessities cf life in a very short 

 period. In this we are highly favored. It is 

 one of the great securities against those ter- 

 rible calamities which have occasionally taken 

 place in other portions of the world. Three 

 or four hundred years ago, the most grievous 

 famines occurred in England, because the 

 land was so wretchedly cultivated. Men, 

 women and children perished of actual hunger 

 by thousands ; and those who survived kept 

 themselves alive by eating the bark of trees, 

 acorns, and pig-nuts. 



A deficiency in a staple article here, has 

 more than once been made up from the abun- 

 dance at the West, and this change is alwaj s 

 going on in this country. 



The November work of nature is now going 

 on. Heavy rains usually saturate the earth, 

 fill up the ponds and streams, carrying with 

 them not only moisture for the roots of plants, 

 but treasuring up warmth for winter use. 

 The observing farmer says; — "It will be a 

 cold winter." Why? it is asked. Because 

 little rain has fallen, the ponds and streams 

 are low, and the winter' will be a cold one. 

 And so it would prove if the rain were with- 



