The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1857-11-06
aarteuItnral Department.

MAxTMs FOR FARuERs.-For rich farms,
stock with the stately Durhams; for poorer, the
active Devons.
The best point for mixer is thin thigh.
To kill caterPilars, rub them up with the
hand.
To kill lice on cattle, dust lightly with ashes.
THRAsHING OUT GRAIN.-As soon as YOU can
address yourself TO the duty, have your wheat
thrashpd out, cleaned, and ready for market.
Keep your eyes steady upon the market, and
avail yourselfof the first good opportunity, when
the price is highly remuneralIve, TO sell your
crop. See to it that the grain dealers do not
get TO the winGward of you, and pocket the
fruits of your labor.
HORSE TALk.-The New York Spirit ofHe
Times gives the following characteristics of
good horse
/. His eyes, even when seen in the stable,
are perfectly clear and transparent, and the
pupils or apples ofthe eyes are alike in color
and size.
.. On being nipped in the gullrt, he will
utter a sound like that from a bellows; if, on
the contrary, he should give vent TO a dry,
husky, short cough, beware ofhim-his wind is
unsound.
8. His legs are smooth and ''cean" if you
find punches or pufS, or a difference in size,
though he may not be lame, disease turks
there.
4. If broad and foil between the eyes, he
is susceptible Of being trained to almost any
thing
5. Ifsome white, or parti-colored, he is dociIe
and gentle.
SHELTER FOR SrocK.-Many farmers still
neglect their animals in winter, feeding them
from the stock-yard in the open air. This
practice is not only barbarous, but is very ex-
pensve. 1t takes third more of hay to carry
COW through the winter by this method, and
with the best OF hay, she will not come out in
good condition
Warm stables are substitute for fodder.
and an animal sheltered in them, is much more
easily kept 10 high flesh. Then, by Stablinc
quite too large an item for farmers in this age
to throw away.
Many who have large farms, and do not wish
to build barn long enough to hold all the hav
and grain, build several small barns in different
meadows. These save the carting, both Of hay
and Of manureS.
10 no case should hay be fodderpd out TO cat
tie without some kind of shelter A howell
Y.
and with light walls and that she'd roof, it Will
keep cattle quite comfortable. They will save
the cost Of building in single winter. Now
is the time 10 put them up.
Funny RAT TARA correspondent of the
Genessee Farmer relates the following funny
way OF catching rats: Il build my corn crib
on posts about eighteen inches high, made rat
proof by putting broad board or sheet-iron on
the top ofthe posts. Make every thing secure
against rats except the granary, and have this
rat-proof except at one ot the back corners.
Here, where they will like it best make nice
hole with spout five inches long on the out
side, WHERE they can 90 in and out and eat at
pleasure. Then, III think the rats are too nu-
merous, take a+-ag, after dark, and slip the
mouth over the spout on the outside of the gran
ary Then send Ben in at The door with
light, and the rails and mice UiIl all run into
the bag. Then slip the bag off the spout, and
slapit once or twice against the side ofthe gran
ary. Turn out the dead, and 10 an hour or two
repeat the process. After all are killed, stop
up the bole till new recruits arrive, which catch
IN the same way"