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ceediog night, or perhaps the next, and yoa 

 will have the gratification next morning of 

 finding him securely imprisoned. Some may 

 object to the plan, perhaps, on the ground 

 that you might catch an innocent dog. If 

 so, he can content himself by not trying it. 

 For my own part, I should pronounce the 

 sentence of guilt on any dog caught on my 

 farm within three nights after my sheep 

 had been killed, and execute the law speed- 

 ily without any qualms of conscience. — 

 [Southern Planter. 



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Ladies' Saddle Horse. 



A correspondent of the Boston Cultiva- 

 tor, speaking of the different styles of 

 horses, closes with these just observations: 



There is a class of horses but little known 

 amongst us in this country — it is the ladies' 

 saddle-horse of England, where only I have 

 known it in perfection. It would repay the 

 expense of a vjsit to that country, to take 

 a stand at the entrance of Hyde-park Lon- 

 don, and observe the lady equestrians and 

 their superior horses in the ring on a fine 

 day; the ease and gentleness of manner, so 

 conspicuous in both being worthy of imitation 

 in this and every other country that I have 

 visited. Such a class of horses, if well 

 bred and properly trained — not tied up and 

 screwed down, as is customary amongst us, 

 but left free and uutrammeled, would find 

 good markets amongst those who would be 

 able and willing to give good prices, especi- 

 ally amongst rich families having unmarried 

 daughters. 



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The Jersey Cow and her Cream. 



We cut the following paragraph from the 

 Maysville Eagle, some weeks ago, when 

 winter was down upon us in earnest. As 

 good cream is always seasonable, the state- 

 ment it contains is just as interesting now 

 au it was then ; but we mention the fact on 

 account of the allusion to the circumstance 

 that the milk was "frozen hard." 



Mr. John B. Poyntz, one of the most 

 enterprising farmers of old Mason, and the 

 only one we believe who has imported 

 foreign cattle, single-handed, for his own 

 farm, showed us on yesterday morning a 

 gallon crock of milk, frozen hard. This 

 was from the milking of his fine pure blood 

 Alderney or Jersey cows, mixed, however, 

 with that of some excellent native cows. 

 The curiosity was the amount of cream 

 upon the top of it, which we measured and 



ascertained to be from three-fourths of an 

 inch to an inch (averaging seven eighths) 

 in thickness. Mr. Poyntz, in speaking of 

 his Alderney cows, always refers to this 

 peculiar and remarkable richness of their 

 milk, as proving their superior excellence as 

 milkers. He assures us that if this milk 

 had stood in a warm room, more cream 

 would have risen to the top, and that in 

 summer it is uniformly thicker than in the 

 crock shown us, whose top or surface was 

 only nine inches across. The quantity of 

 cream is always in proportion to the sur- 

 face of the milk, so that the yield of this 

 would have been still more remarkable if 

 the crock had been larger and shallower. 

 Can anybody beat this?" 



The Owner of the Soil. 



The man who stands upon his own soil, who 

 feels that by the laws of the land in which he 

 lives, bythelaw of civiliz.d nations, he is the 

 rightful and exclusive owner of the land he tills, 

 is by the constitution of our nature under a 

 wholesome influence not easily imbibed by any 

 other source. He feels, other things being 

 equal, more strongly than another, the character 

 of a man as the lord of an inanimate world. Of 

 this great and wonderful sphere which, fashioned 

 by the hand of God, and upheld by His power, 

 is rolling through the heavens, a part is his — his 

 from the centre to the sky. It is the • space on 

 which the generation before moved is its round 

 of duties, and he feels connected by a link with 

 those who follow him, and to whom he is to 

 transmit a home. Perhaps a farm has come 

 down to hira from his fathers. They have gone 

 to their last home! but he can trace their toot- 

 steps over the scenes of his daily labors. The 

 roof which shelters him was reared by those to 

 whom he ovres his being. Some interesting 

 domestic tradition is connected with every in- 

 closure. He sported in boyhood beside the 

 brook which still winds through the meadow. 

 Through the field lies the path to the village 

 school ot earlier days. He still hears from the 

 window the voice of the Sabbath bell which 

 called his father to the house of God; and near 

 at hand is the spot where his parents laid dowa 

 to rest, and where, when his time has come, he 

 shall be laid by his children. These are the feel- 

 ing's of the owner of the soil. Words can not 

 paint them; they flow out of the deepest foun- 

 tains of the heart; they are the life-spring of a 

 fresh, healthy and generous national character. 

 —[Edward Everett. 



Murrain in Canada. — The Quebec Mercury 

 says that an alarming disease prevails among 

 he cattle in the parishes of La Beauce, on the 

 south side of the St. Lawrence, the origin of 

 •which cannot be traced. Upwards of fifteen 

 hundred animals, chiefly cows, have perished. 



