noxious seeds are sown. In the clear sky, 
floating in the autumn wind, you see a 
navy of white sails. Every one of them is 
carrying a seed to sow. The thistle has 
provided its seeds with a light gossamer-like 
down, lighter than air, which, when ripe, 
is caught up by the gale and carried hun¬ 
dreds of miles sometimes, and the seed 
forms the ballast, like th ‘ car to a balloon, 
and when it is brought down by the dew or 
rain, it is all ready to be planted where it 
fall-. The poppy deposits hundreds of 
6eeds in its little pepper box, seeds more 
minute than the scriptural mustard seeds, 
which are loose and ready to fly upon snap¬ 
ping the stem, or when jostled by a rude 
wind. The little touch-me-not deposits its 
seed along the center pith of an elastic pod, 
which, when ripe, at the least touch, 
springs the external walls, and as they snap 
into numerous curls, strips the seeds from 
their anchorage, and scatters them several 
feet around. The burdock and cuckle 
Cling to the vestments of every passer-by, 
and thus their unwelcome attachment 
causes them to be torn off and carelessly 
dropped into every soil. Butternuts and 
walnuts usually grow near the borders of 
Streams, and their inert seeds fall and lie 
where they fall, till the stream rises, then 
they are floated miles away to be planted in 
a kindred soil. An acorn dropped as sur¬ 
plusage from the squirrel’s table, may 
become an oak a hundred years afterward. 
The bird will plant pacciferous seeds miles 
from where he dined upon their berries. 
The live oat, a little grain resembling the 
barley, by a contraction and expansion of 
the barbs upon its shell, as they alternate¬ 
ly become wet and dry, will travel by its 
own locomotion several yards from where 
it falls, and plant itself when its power of 
locomotion ceases. 
But to pursue this subject to the end 
would be to write a library. In conclusion, 
let me say to him who toils in obedience to 
the primitive law of God, enter into the 
mysterious sanctum of His labratory, and 
by working the wisdom of His economy 
you may learn that which shall not only 
fill you with plenty, but shall lead you 
whom He has appointed as a deputy crea¬ 
tor into a knowledge of the truth. We 
would commend the great volume of Na¬ 
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man, and as he studies it carefully, turn¬ 
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sallies, its harmony, its romances, and its 
law and poetry, will rest and enliven his 
hours of toil, and cause that labor from 
which many sigh to be divorced, an in¬ 
valuable source of financial as well as in¬ 
tellectual wealth.— J. H. Hardy in Practical 
Farmer. 
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