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    God speed the ploorare, me the badse
      Tha tUI the fral" earlb,
    For there In It this world so *Me
      No Cen Mks bases worth.
    And though the bads ae dark with il,
      And mased tIe mnly brew.
    It matters not for God wit bless
      The isbe t the pie.
                        -lo Mark Lose Epress.

           The " white Wilew. "
  The farmers of the Sucker State and, to a
more limited extent, of other states also, have
been greatly exercised of late in relation to
the newly discovered and wonderful qualities
of the so-called 'sWhite," -Grey," or "Pow-



warn of. Late Michigan. sad possibly fire it-.
self s1ll not be able t9 prevail! This, indeed,
is t  its chief glor
  WelH we heartily wih aa theme thiugs might
be a-ti, and would. by no means, disoorae
the purpose of mnwvy of eur farmeri to give
this remskable member of the 8alix family a
trial. But is there any need of going crazy
over it, sad buying it hy the mil of irresponsi-
ble peddlers, who may or may not furnish you
with the genuine artiele, and who, in any event
wil most likely ebe-ge you two prime for what
they sell.
  If the argument of rapid growth-six or
eight inches in diameter in four or live years!
-be good for anything, then you can afford
to bein moderately, and afterwards, when sat-
isfied of Its value, plant out cuttings by the
mile from your own young trees.



der " Willow, as it is variously called.     Some farmers in this vieinity
have paid $40
  Personally, we have no acquaintance with per mile, when they could have
got them just
this new wonder, but are a little inclined to as well for $25.
think it rather possible that its friends claim  But, says one, the Illinois
State Horticultu-
too much for it, when they represent that it is ral Society have investigated
the qualities of
good for every conceivable and inconceivable this Willow and pronounced it
a grand thing.
use. If we are to believe all that is said, and Gently, neighbor. Let us
see. In the Journal
just a little more, it will make, in a very few  of the Illinois State Agricultural
Society, Dec.
years, a tree compared with which the Cedar No., page 30, we find the following:
of Lebanon is but as a Dogwood sapling under  Tux G&AY on POWDutL WILLOW.-The
Illi-
the shadow of the giant Pines of California; nois 8State Horticultural Society,
at the Sep-
                                            'tember meeting in Chicago, after
a pretty full
the wood will be splendid for fuel, for building discussion of the subject,
passed the following
timber, for lumber, for shingles, for gunpow- preamble and resolution:
der and paper, the juice will yield most ex-  Vtbor. The lrflpretss10o seems
to have gone out that
                                              this "eety, in endersing
the Gray or Powder Willow, re-
cellent sugar, brandy, lamp-oil and turpentine; censmeded it rora ivIe bnon,
                                               Resolved, That In tnvestigating
the merits of bthi WII-
the bark will make corn-baskets, sap-troughs, Iot, dims olety never intended
to recommend it for live
clapboards, canoes and babies' cradles; the Ience, nor does it now.
                                            ,   This dq~sn't look to Us as
though the truth
buds are to yield invaluable gums, balsams,
resins and a capital substitute for Spaulding's of its value for the purposes
for which some of
glue; and the leaves shall be for the healing of our farmers are buying it
at wholesale, were
the nations!  Every part is, in and of itself, yet fully established; and
accordingly, we
exclusively a "big thing,"-except the roots, say, Farmers, don't
get unduly excited. Keep
and they can probably be coaxed to all grow  cool
of a shape suitable for sled-runners and ship-  SW The two great prerequisites
to success
knees!                                       in any calling are industry
and a definite pur-
   Nor is this enough: It will, if the slips are pose in view.  Industry
alone is not enough.
planted near to each other, in a short time pro- Many a man who it as industrious
as his neigh-
duee a live fence, or, more properly a living bor does not suceeed half so
well, simply be-
wall, against which the storms of heaven, the cause he works hap-hazard.



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