Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1861-08-02
August.

August.
s.The Aelds are all alive with sltry noise,
OF labor's sounds, and insects busy joys;
The reapers Ger their glfttering sickles stoop,
Starting fall Oft the partridge covers up;
And shockers follow where their tolls have gone,
Heapipy the swaths that rustic In the
-Czdrks Shepherds Calendar.
The Mirror of Months hkens August to
"that brief, but perhaps best period of hui
man life, when the promises Of youth are
either fulfilled or forgotten, and the fears and
forethough., connected with decline have not
yet grown strong enough to make themselves
felt; and consequently when we have moth
ing to do but look around US, and be happy"
For it is in this month Of the year, like a
man at forty, has turned the corner Of its
existence; but, like him, it may still fancy
itself young, because it does not feel itself
getting DID," .@-~
The great pressure of the season is over,
and that is what the amiable writer whom we
have quoted means, when he says, We
have nothing to do but look around US and
be happy" For in harvest and haying, ev-
erybody is in motion-every available hand
is pressed into service. Hay-days do not
continue long, and they must be briskly i'm
proved. But now that timothy, clover, and
rye, and wheat-felds arc smoothly shorn and
their contents heaped in generous profusion
in the bays and the scaffolds Of the barn, the
farmer breaths freer, and looks upon the Ia
bors of his hands with pride and satisfac-
ton never equalled, unless perhaps at the
close of the great Indian corn harvest.
But we gather our ample harvest in more
mstter-of- fact manner than did our ancestors.
We make no demonstrations Of gratitude or
Joy. They crowned the wheat sheaves with
flowers, they sung, they shouted. they danced,
thew invited each other, or met to feast as at
Christmas, in the halls Of rich houses; and
every one that had been concerned, man,
woman. or child, received a little present
But we must not linger to long in this pleas
ant field.
The farmers in this region have been fav-
ored with good weather, both for the comfort
of harvest hands, and the convenience of
farmers in the slow ripening of grain. The
crops of all kinds are larger, on many farms
than those of last year, while the area plant
cd is much larger than last year.
Changes are taking place-the flowers are
sensibly diminished, while later and harder
kinds appear. Towards the end of the month
the leaves Of the trees turn yellow, the ma
pies into crimson and purple, the first symp.
tom of approaching autumn. The birds hav-
ing reared their broods, are now in social
companies feeding on the perfect seeds; they
are now congregating in large companies, and
make themselves busy in preparations for
their annual migration south I; we are re-
minded Of fall;
The melancholy days coming the saddest Of the year
You have now finished your harvesting of
small grains, and will take little leisure to
look around you. You will consider the i'm
provement of your lands. Don't forget the
weeds; let no plant 60 to seed that is not
wanted on the farm. Examine your stacks
to sec If they turn water. Look to your
stock; tip the noses Of your sheep with tar,
as it will proven. them being troubled with the
fly, which causes worms in the head.