AMERICAN JOURNAL 
OF 
AGRICULTURE AND SCIENCE. 
CONDUCTED BY C. N. BEMENT, ALBANY. 
VOL. VIL OCTOBER, 1848. No. 10. 
OCTOBER IN PROSPECT. 
Jack Frost has been at work again among the forest leaves^ 
Vegetation is fast disappearing from the sight; few plants are 
now in flower, save the many species of asters. Already crimson 
and russet hues are peeping among the strong deep green of sum- 
mer. And like the first gray hairs which stray intrudingly upon 
our ear-locks — the first shrunken leaves rustle past us with a sad 
foreboding story. They tell us the melancholy tale of nature's 
faded loveliness. The time is near at hand when we must stoic- 
ally bow to the behest of Nature, and bid a short adieu to the 
gieen and sunny seasons of the year. To many this farewell will 
be the last — for the last time some of us now look out upon the 
green drapery of this beautiful earth, upon the structure of which 
the immaculate Creator has displayed so much of his power, his 
goodness, and inexhaustible benevolence. For the last time we 
watch the silver mountain streams leaping from their unbroken 
fastnesses, laving the mossy banks, and smoothing the long grass 
which dapples in their mimic eddies. The same stern hand whose 
strange thrall lock up their energies in its icy manacles, may also 
lay upon us its cold stilly ruin. 
Our migratory birds, which have for some time been congre- 
gating in flocks, are now rapidly departing to the more genial 
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