Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-02-08
TO FARMERS.

CHAFING UNDER THE CoLLAR-A gentle man who has tried the plan successfully for hve years communicates the annexed method of preventing horses from chating under the collar. He says he gets piece ot leather, and has what he terms false collar made, which is simply piece of leather cut in such shape as to le singly, between the shoulders of the horse and the collar. This fends off all the friction. as the collar slips and moves on the leather. and not the shoulders of the horse. Chaf- ing IS caused by friction; hence you see the thing Is entirely plausible. S5ine persons put pads or sheep-sllins under the collar; these, they say, do as much hurt as good, for they augment the heat A single piece o4leather, like that composing the outside ofa collar, without any lining or stuffinp. he assures us, Is better than any thing else. -Bost0n Journal
 CULTWAT1oN OF THE ToMAro.-Ep1roRs SOUTHERN CULTlvAToR.-In December dig a ditch two feet deep, twenty inches wide; tlll m one foot with solid stable manure Then mix the dirt from the ditch with same quantity of manure; fill in, and several inches above the surface. Let it stand until you wish to set out your plants in the spring. Then take pieces of plank 2x4 inches and. 12 feet long; put them in the ground two teet-say two pieces at the head of the ditch, and two at every s feet along the whole length of the ditch. Before setting the plants out, the surface of the ditch should be loosened up to half the depth. Set your plants out along be- tween these pieces of plank, feet apart, and as they grow up and require support, nail narrow strips or slats from one piece of plank to the other row lengthwise on each side. not exactly opposite each other except the two first The more the vines grow the greater the quantity of fruit produced. Cultivated in this manner the vines will grow eight or ten feet high and bear luxuriantly until killing frost
 Jachson Hiss. July 9, 1859 J. D.S
 SKILL IN FARMING.-The farmer has quite as much need ofskill and tact in cultivating the earth, as any other class of citizens Skill, tact good management, contribute quite as much to success in farmers as hard work. The head must work as we'll as the hands, and be mutual helpers. In the article Of butter, for instance the same outlay IS reqired to make miserably poor article as good one. But rancid butter will not sell Tn market for half as much as that which IS purer, sweet, and skllfully put up Tn yellow balls, and in clean wholesome hrkins. It is the skillful dairyman that pockets the most cash and establishes a good reputation for himself and his butter Just so 1t is in all the various depart- ments of agriculture. The man who culti- yates his mind and lays up a fund of useful knowledge, as he cultivates his farm from year to year, is sure to reap rich reward in tbe time of harvest.
 /Farmers of Arkansas, read the follow ling and think of wool at eight dollars pound: 32O acres of land can be bought in Arkansas for $40, provided it be for actual settlement or cultivation. This would sustain drove of sheep whose wool alone would sell for thousands of fdollars. Think too, goats so valuable that the weight of one ill silver is refused for it?
 Jos. Morton, president of the Morgan county agricultural society, a few days since rendered to the agent of the cash. mere shall goat company" of Tennessee, for one of the pure blood Cashmere goats. its weight in silver, which was refused.- The company will not part with the pure bloods at any price. The seven-eighth blood produces the wool which commands eight dollars per pound in the market.
 A HoRsE's FooT-The foot of horse IS one of the most ingenious and singular pieces of mechanism in the animal struc- ture, and scarcely yielding to any regular.