Farm And Home

Iloap high the farmer1 wiutry board ! Heap high the golden coro ; No richor giít lias Auíumu poured Froia out her laviah horn ! Let other lands, exnlting, glean The apple froin the piue ; The oraugo from lts glossy green, The cluster from the vine. We better love tUe bardy gift Our rugged valea bcatow, To cheer us when the etorm sball drift Our harvest fields with biiow. Through vales of grasa and flowera Our plowa their furrowa mude, Wbüe ou the hills the sun and showers Of changeful April played. We dropped the seed o'er hill and plaïn, Beneath the eun of May, And friglitened from our eprouting grain The robber crows nwa?. All through the long briglit days of June Ita leaves grew bright and r'air, And waved iu hot midsummer noon lts soft and auowy hair. And now with Autumn'e mooulit eyes Ita harvost time is come, We plnck away ite frosty leaves, Aud beur ite treaBures home. Then richer than the fabled gifta Apollo showered of old, Fair hands the broken grains Bhall sift, And kuead its meal of gold. Let vapid idlcrs loll in silk, Around the costly board ; Givo ua the bowl of samp and milk By homespuu beauty poured. Then shame on all the proud and vaiu, Whose folly laugha to scorn The biessinga of our hardy grain, Our wealth of golden corn. Lot earih withhald hor goodly root, Let mildew blight the rye ; Gïve to the worm the orchard fruit, And whoat-nelds to the fly ; But let the good old erop adorn The hills our fathera trod ; Still let us i'or hls golden eorn Send up our thauks to God. -J. G. M'hiüicr. A Farmer, and Soinetliinií EUe, " No man can serve two masters." There is no truer axiom than this when applied to the business pursuits of life. No man can pursuo prontably two kinds of business and make botn an equal success, or be successful with both. If a man bas a farm, that is business enough if he lias a love of thepursuit. If lie has not a liking for it, and cannot give his whole mind and energie3 to it, he ought to take some profession or pursuit which suits him better. Lord Palmerton said, " Our new gardener does )retty well, and understanda the theory of his department, but he is a Methodist and goes preaching about the ountry every Sunday, and I fear he ;hinks too much of his sermona to be very successful in his garden." Now this is the case with numberk ss armers, as well as with men of other callings. They get hold of some hobby, and they get all absorbed with it and ose sight entirely of the main businees of their lives. They neglect great inerest for the sake of somelight, attrac;ive employment, which at best is ephemeral. All over tho country we flnd men who are partly farmers and partly implement agents, or ng agenta, or perhaps Bible or other ' Dook agents, and always, when we find such men, we flnd that they are not good farmers, nor are they first-class igents. The farm is leit to the hired lelp, or the inexperienoed oversight of the boys, and then there are a great many small leaks and losses, which, ihough seemingly insignificant in themselves, yet reduce the annual proflts largely, and more and more every year. A man cannot be a tip-top farmer and yet be something else too ; it is out of the question. It has been tried too often.andthe result is always the same. The farm runs down, the returns grow less and less, and at last a mortgage sweeps everything. Nutrllire Properttes ot the Garrot and Farsnlp. In the Channel Islands, where parsnips are highly esteemed as food for milch cows and fattening cattle, they are considered superior to the carrot in nutritivo properties, and both are said to be superior to Swedish turnips. The Eed Antringham carrot is known to be much more nutritious than the White Belgian. In the journal of the Boyal Agrioultural Society of England, Vol. XII, page 395, Dr. Voelcker compares the white or Belgian carrot and parsnip, and savs that there is a general resemblance in the composition of both roots, but parsnips contain less sugar than carrots, the deficiency being supplied by starch. Oarrots contain an average of twelve per cent. of solid substances, parsnips eighteen per cent. The fleshforming constituent of parsnips is great er than that of carrots. Fresh parsnips contain 1.30 per cent. and dry 7.25 per per cent. of flesh-forming con&tituents. Fresh carrots 6.12 per cent. and dry 5.46 per cent. of the same. Parsnips contain more nitrogen than carrots, in the form of ammoniacal salts, and they also contain a doublé portion of fatty matter. The differenca in the relativo proportion of cellular fiber in both roots is very great and the eellular fiber is very useful in the animal economy, being converted by the gastric juice into gum and sugar, and applied in feeding the respiration and in the prodaction of fat. Parsnips are more valuable than carrots for feeding milch cows and also for fattening animáis. They stand frost better than any other root erop. Decoinpogition of Kkss, According to Mr. William Thonip3on of Manchester the decomposition of eggs niay be bronght about by any one of threo different agencies. The flrst, which he terms " putrid cell," is generated from the yelk, this swelling and and absorbing or mixing entirely with the white, and ending with a trae putrefaction. The second is that of the vibrio, the gernis of which (floating as they do through the atrnosphere), when settliug on the moist surface of an egg, readily penétrate iuto it, and Bet in motion the putrefactivo condition ; but when the shell is dry such penetration is impossible. The third is a fungus decomposition, in which the spores penétrate within the shell as before, sending filaments thvongh the egg and converting fhe white int the con-sistency of a strong jelly, the filaments being sometimes so abunda nt as to cause the whole contents to resemble a hardboiled egg. Keepiko Celeet. - A. correspondent of the Germantown Telegraph, says : A friend of mino has kept nis celory through the winter now for several years by stauding it in spring water about an inch in depth ; acd kept thus it continúes to grow and send up fresh branches, so that ho has cut nicely blanched, tender tops two or threo timeB ia a winter. My trouble with the treneh syatem has been meadow mice, wbioh appear to be quite as fond of the plant as I am, and make sad havoc with it. Otherwise it was the bost way to keep it, which I had an opportunity of trying. A land-owner at Now Iberia, La., offers to give to each bonajide settler, fifty acres of land, situated in a healthy, convenient place, about one and a hall' miles from constant navugation and a parish town ; land very fertile, gently rolling, and will produce corn, rice, cañe or cotton, on the simple condition that the man be maried, of another State, white, and that he ditch the place around, and build thereon a house as good as a "Carre cabin," costing $100, and live on apd cultívate the place.