DJUVOTfJD TO AaRtCULTUEE, HORTlGUL'i'UKE, AKD KlK:!5RJi:D ARTS. 



ym' SERIKS. 



IJostoii, April, 18y1. 



VOL. v.— XO. -i. 



R. P. EATO^ S: CO.. rLr.i.isnrRr-, 

 Office. 34 Mekch.axtss' Kow. 



MONTHLY. 



SIMON BROWIf, / p„™oR, 

 s;. KLETCHEK, ( Editors. 



APRIL, 1871. 



"Tlio robin and tlio lihie bird sing 

 o'fr meadows brown and bare; 

 They cannot know what wond'rous bloom 



Is softly budding there; 

 But all the- joy their hearts outpour 

 Seems pulsing in the air." 



v.w persons can 

 I'lTolk'tt such 

 weather as we 

 have had for the 

 hist six months. 

 I he oldest he:i(ls 

 ^,iy "It beats all," 

 tlie ahnanac-makers 

 W;^ are puzzled, and 

 the astronomers are 

 thrown out of gear as to 

 \\J j the weather. The storms 

 "Vj ha^e ended with warm, 

 cahn airs, all through the 

 autunm and winter. The 

 rains did not descend, nor 

 the floods eoiue, when the 

 plants were trying to grow, 

 and the earth rolled round under 

 the scorching sun until it became 

 like a huge clay cake, just from a 

 seven-tin es heated oven. As to spring thaws 

 in this region, we shall have none, as there is 

 no snow to be melted ; there are no swollen 

 streams, no "'rippling rills," no "sounds as of 

 a hidden brook," wander where you will. 

 Cattle roam in search of a living stream ; 

 "gi-inding is low;" mill wheels are stopped; 



luachinery is rusting, and men, women and 

 children find their means of compensating the 

 butcher, baker and grocer are getting low too. 



But, as we write a little in anticipation of 

 our fickle friend Api!IL, all this may be 

 changed before he appears ; the brooks be 

 singing, the meadows flooded, and the wheels 

 revolving more merrily tlian ever. Even 

 snow-drifts, as has hajipened before, may 

 block the ways so that the traveller is snow- 

 boiuid at the country inn, and lai-ge companies 

 of persons, strangers to each other, are left 

 for hours to their meditations, or to devise by 

 their own ingenuity some soiu-ce of amuse- 

 ment while badly snowed up in the cars, hun- 

 gry, thirsty, and lucky if not half frozen, too I 

 ^V'hat a climate this of ours ! And yet, who 

 can say how it can accommodate us better. 



At any rate, so long as it is too inclement 

 to engage in labor upon the soil, it extends 

 the time when 



Flans for the Seascn may be Made. 



This IS a matter of more importance than 

 many farmers give it. The carpenter would 

 come out poorly who commenced iiewing his 

 timber for a frame without first learning the 

 size and length rerpiired for his work. And 

 so in every other calling. Success in any effort 

 requires system. The farmer who enters his 

 fields in the spring without some definite plan 

 of proceeding, finds himself at a loss at every 

 step. ]f he concludes to devote a certain field 

 to corn, he finds, by-and-by, that another piece 



