The Farmers' cabinet, and American herd-book . his owii, Secluded from tumult and fnruier, more blent than the king on his throne, Enjojs all llie comforts of the sweet smiling spring sheds its perfumearound. And enchants every tree,With his clitterinp ploughshare he furrows his ground. With mind independent and Sununer to fruit the sweet lilossoms transforms. And his harvest fields wave with the hreeze,Sweet anticipation unfolds all her charms. And points to contentment and bountiful autumn her treasure bestows, And her fruits are all gathered a
The Farmers' cabinet, and American herd-book . his owii, Secluded from tumult and fnruier, more blent than the king on his throne, Enjojs all llie comforts of the sweet smiling spring sheds its perfumearound. And enchants every tree,With his clitterinp ploughshare he furrows his ground. With mind independent and Sununer to fruit the sweet lilossoms transforms. And his harvest fields wave with the hreeze,Sweet anticipation unfolds all her charms. And points to contentment and bountiful autumn her treasure bestows, And her fruits are all gathered and stored;His heart to the Giver with gratitude glows. And plenty presides at his Winter howls dismally over the earth, And want tells her tale at his he sits by his clean bla/.ing hearth, And dispenses relief to the let idle ambition her baubles pursue, While wisdom looks down with disdain ;The home of the farmer hath charms ever new. Where health, peace, and compt-lence reign. A. W. No. 9. Diligence. 281. DILIGENCE. The property of Edward Harris, Esq., Moorestown, New Jersey. This splendid portrait, drawn from the life by Woodside, and engraved by Mumford, is afutlifiil representation of one of the most perfect animals of that distinguished breed ofNorrnan:ly horses, the Percheron. fie was imported into this country by his present owner,and retains all the life and vigour which distiMffuish that peculiar race of horses in theirnative country, althou;jh so different in soil and climate; Normandy partaking, in a greatdegree, of the climate of England, moist and cool, in contradistinction to the heat and dry-ness of that of New Jersey ; the change, however, appearing to have no influence whateverupon his constitution of iron. Diligence is of a handsome dapple-grey colour, and measures 15 hands under the stand-ard ; he was purchased by his present owner in 1839, at the Fair of Guibray, a small villagenear Falaise, in Normandy, the birth-place o
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