Hraom Warn, 
i Sorghum vulgare. NATURAL ORDER: Graminee—Grass Family. 
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Se) ARIOUS parts of the United States are favorable to the culti- 
c vation of this corn, which is manufactured into brooms, con- 
© stituting a special industry of most of the Shaker communities, 
sO besides many private persons. It looks very much like the 
y Tf Indian corn as regards its leaves and height. When the panicle 
is sufficiently mature, the stalk is bent down at the top until ripe 
= enough to cut. It is a native of the East Indies, and has been chosen 
a as an emblem of labor. The Sorghum saccharatum, or Chinese sugar 
- cane, is supposed to be another variety, which yields a saccharine juice, 
(x6 F whence its name; but even this, it is said, does not give a product 
equal to the crystallized syrup of the East India species of the same 
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ABOR is health. Lo! the husbandman reaping, 
How through his veins goes the life current leaping! 
How his strong arm in its stalwart pride sweeping, 
True as a sunbeam the swift sickle guides. —Mrs. Osgood. 
IVE me the fair one, in country or city, AN hath his daily work of body or mind 
Whose home and its duties are dear to the heart, Appointed, which declare his dignity ; 
Who cheerfully warbles some rustical ditty, While other animals inactive range, 
While plying the needle with exquisite art. And of their doings God takes no account. 
— Woodworth, —Milton. 
eon, my fair love, our morning task we lose, 
Some labor e’en the easiest life would choose; 
Ours is not great, the dangling boughs to crop, 
Whose too luxuriant growth our alleys stop. 
—Dryden, 
66 (0 till the ground,” said God to man,— HIS my mean task 
“Subdue the earth, it shall be thine;” 
Would be as heavy to me as odious; but 
How grand, how glorious was the plan! 
The mistress, which I serve, quickens what’s dead, 
How wise the law divine. —Mrs, Hale. And makes my labors pleasures. —Shakespeare. © Mi 
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