SEED-TIME ATO HARVEST. 
A TIME FOR ALL THINGS. 
BY MRS. M. J. SMITH. 
There’s a time for the blossom, 
A time for the leaf; 
For the tender, green blades, 
And garnered-in sheaf; 
For flowing gold tresses, 
And innocent mirth, 
And silver that gleams, 
As we bend to the earth. 
There’s a time for the curtains, 
Of morn to unfold; 
A time when the sun-beams 
Turn cloud-hills to gold. 
For days full of sunshine, 
And clouds filled with rain — 
For seed-time and harvest, 
And ungathered grain. 
There’s a time to be joyous, 
And merry and glad; 
A time of such sorrow 
E’en songs make us sad. 
A time for the wedding, 
A time for the feast; 
Time for the birth of 
Both beggar and priest. 
Morn, noon and evening — 
So near to the tomb, 
Gleaming with glory, 
Or clouded with gloom. 
Time for the Summer, 
All glorious and bright; 
Time when the fields are 
Snow-covered and white. 
A time to give warning, 
Lest feet wander wrong; 
A time to encourage, 
For all are not strong. 
A time to climb life’s hill, 
A time to go down; 
A time to be patient, 
And wait for the crown. 
Aye, time for all things, 
But no time to lose; 
No time while travelling, 
Our sandals to loose. 
No time to halt 
Or rest by the stile 
Till the last step is taken, 
God counts in life’s mile. 
Experiment Farms. 
primarily to assist the farming community. 
Through this agency seeds of all kinds are 
tested and distributed. The various artificial 
manures are experimented with, and the 
facts given to the farmers. The latter have 
heretofore spent vast sums of money upon 
well-advertised rubbish. The experiment 
farm furnishes information about dairying, 
the growth of fruit and vegetables, and the 
drying of fruit. It saves the farmer the 
expense of trying new plants by testing their 
value before money is spent upon them. In 
short, the object of these institutions is to 
give farmers the benefit of the all science 
and experience of the age. This admirable 
German institution has been imitated in a 
small way in New York and Ohio; but its 
possible usefulness does not seem as yet to 
be appreciated by the American people, and 
by the farmers least of all. There ought to 
be dozens of snch government farms in the 
large States. Were these institutions nu¬ 
merous and the farming class wise enough 
to take advantage of them, it would add 
amazingly to our national wealth by utiliz¬ 
ing the science and experience of the coun¬ 
try. The most active-minded and intelligent 
farmers would profit quite as much as their 
more stolid neighbors. Of course these ex¬ 
periment farms and their appliances would 
cost money, but they would return a hun¬ 
dred fold for every dollar expended upon 
them. These experimental farms will be 
useful also in helping to collect agricultural 
statistics. A correct knowledge of the pro¬ 
duction of the country is essential in form- 
ing an estimate of values, and the farming 
class will never get all their productions are 
worth until the statistics of the crops are 
well nigh perfect. All good citizens should 
encourage these government farms.— Bern- 
orest's Monthly . 
The Evergreen Blackberry. 
BY O. DICKINSON. 
Germany has the credit of originating an 
institution which promises to be of the great¬ 
est importance to the world; but more 
particularly to the agricultural classes. It 
is what is known as the experiment farms. 
These are government institutions designed 
The above named Blackberry was brought 
to Oregon from the South Sea Islands a few 
years ago, and is found to be the most 
hardy of all the Blackberry Family. As the 
climate of Oregon is usually quite mild in 
winter yet now and then the mercury 
goes down several degrees below zero—and 
