---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Anderson, Edward H.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 15
number: 6
published: 1912-04
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Anderson, Edward H., "Spring," *Improvement Era* 15, no. 6 (April 1912): 481.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1506unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera1506unse
start_page: 481
end_page: 481
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1912-04)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1506unse
  publication_year: 1912
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1912, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Spring

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 Spring Spring has come. The reservoirs of the hills are once more beginning to pour out their rich treasures into the valley. The birds are on the wing. There is a scent of growth in the amative air. The sun and the earth are kissing to bring forth fruitage.
 The melting snows rush down the wadies. The distant lake is roiled with new riches of water and soil, contributed by the impetuous mountain streams. One can hear their moanings in the calm of the early morn, resounding like the soughing of the wind in the pines, or as when a brewing storm stirs the snow drifts, against the clear sky on the imperial peaks of the Wasatch.
 The scientific husbandman is busy with his land, placing his acres and seeds into environment in harmony with the laws of growth and production. He is alertly aware that cultivation and planting must be attended in the proper season, and that neglect at the critical springtime moment is fatal to the best development. He is therefore watchful and painstaking, lest a neglect or a mistake now shall later ruin his rich prospects for an abundant harvest. He is especially careful that good seed shall be sown in well cultivated ground. He therefore selects it with care, places it in the fruitful earth which has been fertilized and prepared in season with loving attention. His work is strenuous now, but the advancing seasons will bring him pleasure in the perfect growth and development of his plants and grain, and at length rest, in the enjoyment of his harvest's rich reward.
 Happy is the youth whose spring of life is at hand, and who, in the fascinating murmurs of its rich awakening, may still keep his wits about him, that with thrift and wisdom, truth and righteousness, he may so select his seed, and so plant, fertilize and cultivate his springtime acres of life that the harvest may be full and abundant. Edward H.
Anderson.