Counsel for December

The following comes from W. W. Phelps, Almanac for the Year 1859: The Third after Leap Year; and after the 6th of April, Thirtieth year of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Great Salt Lake City, UT: J. McKnight, 1859), 14:

DECEMBER, like a wise calculator, comes to close the year's concerns. Blessed is he that can say: - "Thy servant is ready; with the five talents thou lentest me, I have made ten." So it seems the earth hath done her part; the Lord His; and happy is he that responds and "I mine" - ready for a NEW YEAR. New motto: - Time is never tight.

Counsel for November

The following comes from W. W. Phelps, Almanac for the Year 1859: The Third after Leap Year; and after the 6th of April, Thirtieth year of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Great Salt Lake City, UT: J. McKnight, 1859), 13:

NOVEMBER brings short days, but much good may be done in them; by preparing for winter, setting out fruit trees, fixing gardens and settling old debts for newspapers, almanacs, etc. and paying them. Wives and daughters sowing and knitting - or preparing the children for school to learn parental science. Youth runs to old age.

Counsel for October

The following comes from W. W. Phelps, Almanac for the Year 1859: The Third after Leap Year; and after the 6th of April, Thirtieth year of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Great Salt Lake City, UT: J. McKnight, 1859), 12:

OCTOBER is nearly the end of annual outfitting. Fruit, grain, meat, sauce, wood and clothes, with a receipt from the Tithing office, ought to be in their proper place, ready for the cool head of winter, that often tries the recess of a stone. Pleasure is good, but PLENTY is better; and so he that keepeth the commandments of the Lord is blessed.

Counsel for September

The following comes from W. W. Phelps, Almanac for the Year 1859: The Third after Leap Year; and after the 6th of April, Thirtieth year of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Great Salt Lake City, UT: J. McKnight, 1859), 11:

SEPTEMBER says sow fall wheat. Now is the season of fruit. Dry peaches, save the bounties of a liberal Providence, who knows that you have need of all those things. Secure what has been raised, for waste and want are a couple of foolish virgins that will never get to heaven. Idleness will bring thee to poverty; but a diligent hand maketh rich.

Counsel for August

The following comes from W. W. Phelps, Almanac for the Year 1859: The Third after Leap Year; and after the 6th of April, Thirtieth year of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Great Salt Lake City, UT: J. McKnight, 1859), 10:

AUGUST for worthy women affords plenty of time to spin and weave; nice cloth from May's "shearing of the flock;" wool, cotton, flax, hemp, and rags for carpets, all adorn the toilet of wives and daughters better than the foreigner's costly commodities of ambition. Prudence says, cloth thyself, and the Lord will help thee.

Counsel for July

The following comes from W. W. Phelps, Almanac for the Year 1859: The Third after Leap Year; and after the 6th of April, Thirtieth year of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Great Salt Lake City, UT: J. McKnight, 1859), 9:

JULY, in vigor, should be set apart, agriculturally, for HAYING AND HARVEST; the season to secure plenty for the use of prosperity. The farmer's "penny saved," for the widow and orphan, is worth more than the speculator's "dime horded." Prudence and care save fortunes. Wisdom whispers, save all.

Counsel for June

The following comes from W. W. Phelps, Almanac for the Year 1859: The Third after Leap Year; and after the 6th of April, Thirtieth year of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Great Salt Lake City, UT: J. McKnight, 1859), 8:

JUNE is a season of beauty; dress the gardens, weed the corn, sow turnips and roota baga, buckwheat and late corn for fodder may finish the farmer's vegetable catalogue of summer truck. A well cultivated country shows the marks of civilization as much as church steeples, courthouse domes and iron eyes. Grace and grain gain glory.