NEW ENGLAND FARMER. RUGGLES, NOURSE, MASON & CO.

among the leaves, but what, on examination, we shall find to be the new foliage that has been put forth since midsummer, and which yet retains all the brilliant green of the spring."

UGUST, the last of the Summer months, As we said of July, so we say of this monthhas come; the ful. it is peculiarly AUGUST-like. The general apness of the year has pearance of the country is unlike that of any past; the wheat, other season. The mornings and evenings are and some other im- sometimes a little chilly, then close, damp, "mugportant crops, are gy," and hot, with a kind of suffocating influgathered; and ence on the sick, while the glaring sun at noon though the pota- burns with fervent heat. These are the joyous toes, and other hours, however, of the locusts, whose intense roots, the apples, earnestness of song is only less fierce than the the buckwheat and sun itself, and wakes the tired laborer too soon the golden corn re- from his accustomed nap at noon. The air glismain to be harvesttens with the radiated heat, fowls drop their ed; yet the flush and fulwings, cattle stand in pools, or seek the shade of ness of the year are gone. some friendly tree, standing singly on elevated Like a beautiful woman, land, where every breath may cool their heated just past her prime, when sides. Dogs plunge into the water, while the the vigor of health and cat seeks some dark corner, where neither sun or fulness of outline are so flies will torment, and sleeps quietly away the imperceptibly touched as only to add new charms, day. Young cocks begin to crow lustily, often so the vegetable kingdom compensates us for the starting their "pitch" a good deal too high, and loss of its robust habit in a thousand beautiful break down before they have accomplished half and unthought of shades and shapes. Indeed, the scale. Young bitterns occasionally show their "the whole face of Nature has undergone, since javelin-like bills above the high grass, on the last month, an obvious change; obvious to those look-out for danger, as they leave their native meadows for some wider field of action. Crickets who delight to observe all her changes and operations, but not sufficiently striking to insist on be- chirp solemnly in the evening, children crunch ing seen generally by those who can read no char- green apples and hate to go to bed, though the acters but such as are written in a text hand. If latter only is not peculiar to the season.

the general colors of all the various departments Those who observe, will notice that August is of natural scenery are not changed, their hues not July or September; that it has its appropriare; and if there is not yet observable the infinite ate functions, as have all the other Months, and variety of autumn, there is as little the extreme that it is devoted to the discharge of them. monotony of summer. The woods, as well as the All is August-like. The birds have reared their single timber trees that occasionally start up with young, and taught them, to perfection, how to such fine effect in the midst of meadows and corn- fly, how to provide their food, how, in their turn, fields, we shall now find sprinkled with what at to build and lay and rear their young, and when first looks like gleams of scattered sunshine lying to leave their native land and flee to kindlier