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,x NOWN more commonly, from one variety, as the Red Clover, 
this three-leaved product of the meadow (whence its scientific 
name) is, next to common grass, the most useful plant to the 
husbandman for the feeding of his cattle; and of it they are 
exceedingly fond. It is usually grown as a mixture in with 
other grasses, but sometimes whole fields are devoted to it. 
All such crops should really be grown and stored separately, so as 
to be used at discretion, for cattle, as well as people, have a discern¬ 
ing taste, and know as well as we that “variety is the spice of life.” 
The blossoms are fragrant, and are very enticing to bees and butter¬ 
flies as well as other honey-loving insects. 
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TIKE clocks, one wheel another on must drive — 
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Affairs by diligent labor only thrive. —Chapman. 
AND cheerfully she plodded through 
1 Her many household cares; 
And led the flock her father left, 
To feed upon the hill; 
And guided them at sunset 
To the bubbling silver rill; 
And put them safe in fold at night, 
And left the watch-dog nigh, 
That at his honest, angry bark 
The coward wolf might fly; 
And train’d the woodbines higher yet 
Upon the cottage wall, 
And pruned the roses, where they grew, 
So sweet and fresh and tall; 
And planted flowers and strawberries, 
In her small plot of ground,. 
And painted all the railing green, 
That fenced her garden ’round. 
— Mrs. Norton. 
/"\FT did the harvest to the sickle yield, 
^ Their harrow oft the stubborn glebe hath broke; 
How jocund did they drive their teams afield, 
How bow’d the woods beneath their sturdy stroke. 
— Gray. 
QHORTLY his fortune shall be lifted higher; 
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True industry doth kindle honor’s fire. 
—Shakespeare. 
A BSENCE of occupation is not rest, 
1 A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. 
— Covjper. 
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