The New England farmer . O., Publishers,Office, 34 Merchants Row. MONTHLY. SIMOIT BROWN, S. FLETCHER, J!fOVEMBBK. Low the leaves lie in the forest, on the damp earth, brown and chill;Gather near the evening shadows; Hark I the wind is eorrowing are the pine-crowned mountains, hidden in a dusky cloud;Bee the rain, it faUeth even from the wan and dreary sky;Rusheth on the swollen streamlet, willly whirling, f jaming by;And the branches, leafless, waving in the Fall wind, low are bowed. O V E M B E R ! the Month cfThanksgivingDays; the sea-son of thanks-giving crops areha
The New England farmer . O., Publishers,Office, 34 Merchants Row. MONTHLY. SIMOIT BROWN, S. FLETCHER, J!fOVEMBBK. Low the leaves lie in the forest, on the damp earth, brown and chill;Gather near the evening shadows; Hark I the wind is eorrowing are the pine-crowned mountains, hidden in a dusky cloud;Bee the rain, it faUeth even from the wan and dreary sky;Rusheth on the swollen streamlet, willly whirling, f jaming by;And the branches, leafless, waving in the Fall wind, low are bowed. O V E M B E R ! the Month cfThanksgivingDays; the sea-son of thanks-giving crops areharvested andsecured; andthough drought,or other causes,may have cutsome of themshort, an abun-dance for all, man andbeast, is terrible famineswhich occasionally cut off thepeople of other lands, will not=^^^H probably be felt here. Ourcountry is so widely extended, that some por-tion of it will always be blessed with abundantharvests. If drought, insects or storms pre-vent crops from maturing in this region, some. other in the wide domain of our sister Stateswill have a surplus to spare. In earlier times, this might not have availedus much ; but now that the country is threadedwith railroads and canals, transportation is sorapid and cheap, that one portion of thecountry can supply another and distant onewith the necessities cf life in a very shortperiod. In this we are highly favored. It isone of the great securities against those ter-rible calamities which have occasionally takenplace in other portions of the world. Threeor four hundred years ago, the most grievousfamines occurred in England, because theland was so wretchedly cultivated. Men,women and children perished of actual hungerby thousands; and those who survived keptthemselves alive by eating the bark of trees,acorns, and pig-nuts. A deficiency in a staple article here, hasmore than once been made up from the abun-dance at the West, and this change is alwaj sgoing on in this country. The November work of natur
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