THE VOICE OF THE GRASS.
Here I come creeping, creeping everywhere
By the dusty road-side,
On the sunny hill-side.
Close by the noisy brook,
In every shady nook,
I come creeping, creeping everywhere.
Here I come creeping, creeping everywhere,
All around the open .door,
Where sit the aged Poor }
Here where the children play,
In the bright and merry May,
I come creeping, creeping everywhere.
Here I come creeping, creeping everywhere,
In the noisy city street,
My pleasant face you'll meet,
Cheering the sick at heart,
Toiling his busy part—
Silently creeping, creeping everywhere.
Here I come creeping, creeping everywhere,
You cannot see me coming,
Nor hear my low sweet humming ;
For in the starry night,
All the glad morning light, |
I come creeping, creeping everywhere,
Here I come creeping, ereeping everywhere
More welcome than the flowers
‘ In Summer's pleasant hours ;
The gentle cow is glad,
And the merry bird not sad,
To see me creeping, creeping everywhere.
Here I come creeping, creeping everywhere,
When you're numbered with the dead,
In your still and narrow bed,
In the happy Spring I'll come
And deck your silent home—
Creeping, silently creeping everywhere.
Here I come creeping, creeping everywhere,
My humble song of praise
Most joyfully I raise
To Him at whose command
I beautify the land,
Creeping, silently creeping everywhere.
PENNSYLVANIA STATE
COLLEGE.
Wehave received from the President
of the College, the following pro-
gramme and notice, which fully ex-
plain themselves. The commencement
exercises grow more and more interest-
ing from. year to year, and well repay
the time and trouble it costs to attend
them.
JUNE 25, 3 P. M.
Baccalaureate Sermon, President Calder.
MONDAY, JUNE 26.
Examination of Classes.
TUESDAY, 27.
Examination of Classes. in
11-2, p. m.—Trial of Mowers.
, p. m.—Dress Parade and Company Drill.
71-2, p. m.—Class-day exercises, Class of 1876,
WEDNESDAY, 28.
Examinations concluded.
9, a. m.—Artillery Salute.
10, a. m.—Annual Meeting of Trustees.
1, p. m.—Meeting of Delegates and Alumni to
elect Trustees.
3 1-2, p. m.—T'rial of Reapers.
4, p. m.—Review and Battalion Drill.
7 1-2, p. m.—Junior Contest for Kaine Prize.
THURSDAY, 29,
8, a. m.—Inspection of Post.
10 1-2, a. m.— COMMENCEMENT.
2, p. m.—Annual Meeting of Alumni.
7 1-2.p. m.—President’s Levee.
The Annual Meeting of Delegates to elect
+» 8ix Trustees of this Institution will be held in
the College Chapel, at 1 o'clock, p. m.,on Wed-
nesday, June 28. By the provisions ot the
mended Charter, the members of the Exe-
cutive Committee of the Pennsyivania State
Agricultural Society, and the Managers of the
Franklin Institute of Pennsylvania, are, ex-
officio, electors ; and each County Agricultural
Society, and each County Mining or Manufac-
turing or Mechanical Association in the State,
is entitled to send three delegates as electors.
Such associations as have not appointed dele-
gates should do so at once, and send me the
names and Post Office addresses of those dele-
gates.
By the said Charter, the Alumni also are
constituted electors to elect, at the same time
and place, three Trustees to serve one, two
and three years respectively.
JAMES CALDER,
President,
THE NEBRASKA AGRICULTURAL: So-
ciety offered premiums for essays on
“sheep breeding and sugar beet culture.
Students of the Agricultural College
won two of the premiums offered.
These were $100 and $60, and were
taken by Harvey Culbertson and G. H.
Simmons. We are glad to know that
such talent exists among the young
men of the college. It shows that
they are being educated: in the strict
line of their profession.
We print the above as a hint to our
State Agricultural Society, and have
no doubt that several of.the young men
at the State College, could give as
‘good an account of themselves as did
Messrs Culbertson and Simmons.
RULES FOR FARMERS.
A correspondent of the Country Gen-
tleman, suggests as something “that
would interest and profit many young
farmer readers,’”’ that the editor should
prepare and publish 100 rules for the
attainment of success and wealth in
farming, A much smaller number, if
faithfully adhered to, will contribute
materially to success, and ensure, with
economy and good habits, sufficient
wealth to satisfy ‘the reasonable desires
of any one. Among them, the follow-
ing may be mentioned :
1. Select good land, and reject sterile,
no matter how cheap.
2. Raise no weeds, but only profitable
crops.
8. Underdrain, whenever nceded.
4. Adopt a good rotation of crops and
adhere to it.
5. Provide sufficient shelter for do-
mestic animals.
6. Keep everything connected with
domestic animals neat and clean.
7. Plow well, cultivate well, do all
work well, und not slipshod.
8. Accumulate and save manure, and
apply it properly.
9. Procure good implements, and
take care of them.
10. Raise good animals and take care
of them. ig
The preceeding ten rules will be of
much use if carried out, and we add
two more. to cover them all, viz:
11. By weighing and measuring, and
with careful accounts, ascertain just
what every crop or every animal costs
you, and find out just what is the market
value of each.
12. Employ then those crops and
animals which you find give you a good
profit, and drop all else.
You can thus have the satisfaction of
knowing that you are carrying out
Ricarda’s two famous rules for acquir-
ing wealth, .amely:
1. Cut short your losses.
2. Let your profits run on.
IT is a very common mistake to sup-
pose that the public roads are owned by
the town. A town, by our Connecticut
law, does not own anything ysthe
highway. The public own the right of
Jassing over it, and the soil itself be-
ongs to the owners of the adjoining
land, just as much as the adjoining land,
belongs to them.” They own on .onej
side of the fence just as much as on the
other. If.there are ‘fruit trees on the
highway in front of your farm on your
side of the middle ofithe road, they be-
long to you; the fruit belongs to you,
and the timbér belongs to you; the
grass upon it belongs. to you; and if
you cultivate a patch of it, the crops you
raise upon it belong to you.
Faryine is discouraging work some-
times, but much of ‘the growling about
it is owing to poor methods of working
—an unwillingnees to do the best un-
der any given circumstances. Patient
and intelligent effort will do a good
deal in a few years if put inmiforce by a
smart man, when ‘a’ laz§ man or
croaker will fail. A good agricultural
paper is a great quickener ‘of thought
and action, and its articles, taken
some times with a grain of allowance,
and in connection with: a man’s own
common sense, must result in much
good.
Mr. C. W. Field, whose name is
well known in connection with the
telegraph system, has given $10,000 to
one of the towns in Massachusetts
toward laying out and embellishing the
public and private grounds of the town,
subject to the condition that all the
village fences shall be dispensed with,
and the inhabitants are complying
cheerfully with the conditions, and the
appearance of the town is rapidly im-
proving in consequence. ;
G1vE the boys a chance. Let them
have an opportunity to make a pittance
for thémselves—an acre of corn or a
quarter of that for potatoes—soniething,
anything that will encourage the boys
and give them hopes for the future.
Farmers and fathers, try it for just one |
year, and see if your boys do inot seem
more cheerful ; see if they are not more
contented with their sphere in life ; and
also see if it will not tend to make them
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