No. 4. 



Treatment of Domestic *^nimals — Ice Houses. 



110 



a family who has kept no regular records of 

 his receipts and payments, much difficulty and 

 sometimes heavy losses have occurred, besides 

 a great deal of trouble and anxiety to those 

 who were obliged to grope in the dark in set- 

 tling his estate. 



It is well known that very many worthy 

 intelligent farmers are careful to preserve an 

 accurate statement of all their worldly con- 

 cerns, duly arranged in proper form, and such 

 rarely find " a hole in the purse." 



But tiicrc are many others who would at 

 once plead guilty, or, if they did not, could 

 readily be convicted on responsible testimony, 

 of totally neglecting to keep any intelligible 

 series of entries in a book, of their ingoings 

 and outgoings, and these are the persons who 

 often complain of " a iiole in the purse," and 

 yet they are not careful to have it repaired 

 in due season. Abraham. 



scarcaly be an egg laid for a week. Those 

 who desire to have plenty of eggs for domes- 

 tic use, or for the market during the ap- 

 proaciiing season, should attend to having 

 clean, warm, dry and comfortable quarters 

 prepared for their fowls during the inclement 

 weather of winter, and try to have them ac- 

 commodated with some dry earth, sand, ashe8 

 or spent lime for them to dust themselves in, 

 in order that they may be kept free from ver- 

 min. All unkind or cruel treatment to do- 

 met-tic animals should be discountenanced and 

 prohibited, for it fosters the worst of passions, 

 and is always productive of loss to the owner. 

 Whiteinarst., Nov. 1, 1836. 



For tho r'annors' Cnliiiiet. 



Treat Domestic Animals kindly and teu» 

 derly. 



Domestic animals of all kinds, from ahorse 

 down to a chicken, should be treated with 

 gentleness and mildness; men or boys wlio 

 are rash and bad tempered ought not to be 

 permitted to have charge of them or to inter- 

 fere with their management. Animals that 

 are kept in constant fear of suffering nev- 

 er thrive well, and they often become vi- 

 cious and intractable by unkind and cruel 

 treatment. Horses are often rendered in a 

 great measure useless by bad management ; 

 and cows in consequence of violence and 

 blows, suffer from disease, and are often found 

 to fail in their milk. Hard driving is well 

 known to give cows much suffering, and to 

 produce a falling off in the expected profit 

 from them. Sheep suffer much injury from 

 the same cause ; and hogs are often so hurt by 

 rashness that they are rendered of less value. 

 Poultry suffer much also from wanton vio- 

 lence, though it is well known that they do best 

 ■when they are kept quiet and secluded ; this 

 is particularly the case with laying hens, yet 

 how often do we see children and even men 

 and women raise the war whoop among them, 

 when they want to catch one or more for 

 slaughter; sticks, stones, and all kinds of mis- 

 siles are hurled among them ; dogs are had in 

 requisition, and all kinds of warfare are 

 deemed allowable on such occasions, and the 

 noise and turmoil are often raised to such a 

 pitch that the whole neighborhood is dis- 

 turbed, and all this to capture a few chickens, 

 which might be accomplished in a much 

 shorter time and with much less physical 

 force by a little judicious contrivance, that 

 could be brought into requisition by a child 

 of a dozen years oM. After such an alarm 

 and disturbance among the poultry, there will 



For the Farintrs' Cabinet. 



Ice Houses. 



In my communication upon ice houses in 

 the September number of the Cabinet, I 

 thought it unnecessary to describe what I con- 

 ceive the best method of building them above 

 ground, because the expense is considerable, 

 and not so gopd when made, as deep cellars. 

 Bat as it may be desirable sometim.es to erect 

 ice houses in situations where cellars cannot 

 be made to drain the water, I will describe 

 the plan I pursued in building one; which an- 

 swered the purpose of keeping ice as well, 

 perhaps, as is usual for houses of the kind, 



I erected it below a large mill race, floated 

 the ice down and filled it without any expense 

 of carting, and very little labor in any way, 

 I varied from the usual plan of building, in 

 the following manner. In.-tead of a double 

 frame, I made it single, but had the timber 

 for the sides sawed 12 inches wide and two 

 inches thick, resembling long joice; these 

 weretcnented into the sills and plates, which 

 were of ordinary size; and then the building 

 was boarded inside and out, and the middle 

 filled in with tan well pounded down ; no 

 braces were put in the house, as they prevent 

 the tan from .settling evenly as it decom.- 

 poses, and leave vacancies for the air. The 

 house was put upon a wall about 12 or 1.5 

 inches from the ground, upon which rested 

 very strong joice that supported a rough floor 

 laid' with two inch plank, which was covered 

 over about one foot deep with tan well tram- 

 pled and made smooth, upon which the ice 

 rested. 



The house was roofed in the usual way, 

 and strong joice put upon the plates. When 

 the house was filled with ice, a loose floor was 

 laid upon those joice, and a good covering of 

 tan over the floor, which completed the work. 

 Subscriber, 



Agriculture is the most ennobling of all pur- 

 suits. The lord of the soil is a freeman in 

 truth. 



