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play-things for themselves, and be less likely to 
get into bad company. They will be happier, 
wiser, better; they will havo a stronger attach¬ 
ment for home, and a greater love for parents, 
and these are a [priceless fortnne to any young 
man or woman, a fortune which cannot bo lost 
by any failure of banks or depreciation in real 
estate. 
JOTTINGS FROM 
NOTE BOOK. 
THE RAT NUISANCE. 
Con. F. D. Ccrtis, in the Rerun of Nov. 3, 
complains of the intolerable annoyance he suf¬ 
fers from ruts. My method of ridding myself of 
this nuisance in the cellar, or about the house, 
is to take a quantity of refined 
potash, (I use Babbit's) partially 
pulverize it, moisten it with 
water, so that it will form a ^ 
sort of paste, and daub this \wifj 
about tbo bot toms of their holes Vr 
and ruu-ways, so that they are 
compelled to step in it, in en- Jr /j 
taring the premises. I have 
practiced this method for sev- fF y fl W 
eral years, with very aatisfac- 17" ^ 
tory results. If the first appli¬ 
cation is not sufficient, it can, 
of course be repeated with but 
little trouble nr expense, and I 
am confident of favorable re- 
suits. Such, at least, has uni¬ 
formly been my experience 
since I first adopted the meth¬ 
od, many years since. The * 
theory is, the rat steps in the A $ 
moistened pofutih while enter- «. 
ing. Its caustic nature produ- fcs*- • 
ces a smarting sensation in the 
feet. He at once proceeds to ^ f ^ 
lick his feet to alleviate the 
pain. The consequence is, a 
not very agreeablo sensation in 
tho mouth. He is compelled 
to renew the application in going out—re- 
Bult, he does not care to renew his visit, and 
probably imparts good counsel to his associates, 
and the rat nuisance is at once abated. 
I prefer this method to the use of phosphorus, 
or any of the “Itat poisons ” recommended, as 
it is not always safe to havo tho latter around, 
and we havo no dead rats left in the walls or 
other out-of-the-way places to infect the air with 
their offensive odors. 
TAKE CARE OF THE FARM GATES. 
Farm gates cost something, yet when we con¬ 
sider the great amount of time they save to us 
in each year, they are, in tho end, more econom¬ 
ical than posts aud bars, if properly cared for. 
The winter season is now upon us, and the farm 
stock is, or should be, all safely and comfortably 
provided for, in the barn or barn-yard. And 
since cattle in this State are prohibited from 
running at large, the use of farm-gates can gen¬ 
erally be dispensed with during the winter sea¬ 
son. For their better preservation, they should 
he taken off their hinges, and safely housed In a 
Becure place. Thus you guard against the dan¬ 
ger of their getting open, and being blown about 
and probably broken by the rough winds of win¬ 
ter—or being crushed by the settling of a heavy 
weight of snow resting upon them. It will also 
prevent the swaggiug of tho gate posts whou 
the frost leaves the ground in tho spring, which 
proper season arrives, and by such care as has 
been suggested, much expense for repairs may 
be avoided. 
THAT "SMAU COTTAGE." 
I have one serious objection to tho plan of tho 
small cottage, as represented on Page 353 of the 
Rcbal of Doc. I. There appears to be too much 
outside to it. Nearly three-fourths of the walls 
of three of the four rooms are directly exposed 
to the outer atmoaphero. This might bo an ad¬ 
vantage in a tropical climate, but in the cold 
winters of our northern latitude It would make 
the house a cold one, and I fear it would be a 
little too “ airy." A more compact form would, 
I think, be more economical and certainly more 
comfortable in winter. I confess I do not under- 
Orange Peel (F. S. 129) was regarded as the best 
bull in Jersey and was imported into this coun¬ 
try about the same time by A. Robeson of Rhode 
Island, in whose hands, as I have heard, ho was 
allowed to get so vicious that they were obliged 
to kill him, and so he did not leave the mark 
upon tho stock of this couutry which ho ought 
to have done, a really great loss, for wherever 
his name —with the number (129) of the Jersey 
Herdbook, or 502 of the “ Herd-Register of tho 
American Jorsoy Cattle Club occurs in a pedi¬ 
gree, it is almost a guarantee of high excellence. 
Lord Byron was imported in 1871, in his darn, 
Black Bess, 1788, a beautiful solid-colored cow, 
very dark as her name implies, but very good, 
and one of tho Centennial prize herd. She was 
TREATMENT 
HORSES AND CATTLE, 
-.; ' .•„ - :; 
Lord Byron. 
I Jr*' 1 
stand what is meant by the "closet underneath, 
with lattice work." Nothing is said of a cellar, 
which is usually considered as essential, and 
even if none is contemplated in the plan, the 
closet of “four feet from the ground” would 
seem hardly available for any practical use. 
Clinton. 
The cottage in question was intended for tho 
Southern States and we intended so to state.— 
[Eds. 
®!ie Ijtdlsim 
CHARLES L. SHARPLESS’ JERSEYS. 
COL. II. O. WELD. 
The characteristic and boautiful engravings of 
Jersey cattle with which you adorn your Journal 
this week, are typical representatives of tho 
breed m high perfection both of beauty and 
quality. Many of your readers doubtless know 
that Mr. 0. L, Suaupless is a wealthy merchant 
of Philadelphia, who has a true love for Jersey 
cattle and not less for trotting horses. His 
Jerseys have been imported, purchased in this 
country, and bred, with great discrimination, and 
a free use of money. His herd won tho special 
owned for some time by Mr. Henry Thomas of 
Philadelphia, as was also the bull. 
Resita, 3(171, is a solid fawn cow with black 
points, bred by Dr. A. S. Hubekll of Connecti¬ 
cut. She is by St. Hilier 45, imported; dam, 
Blanche 594, bred by S. J. Suaupless, by F.arl 
81, out of Lily 6lh, 500, bred by John J. Norton, 
by Paterson 11, out of Lily 1, imported; and It 
is fair to say that every animal named in her 
pedigree has been famous. 
Her name comes so near to reseda the generio 
name for Mignonette, that most delightfully 
odorous of common flowers, that it seems naturul 
to find her in such close association with Pansy. 
Young Pansy 2478 was imported in 1873 by 
J. Carter Brown of Rhode Island, being 
selected for him by Col. Waring*. Her siro was 
Orange Peel (129), 502, above alluded to, and 
her dam Pansy (338) a liigblj* commended cow 
of the “ Foundation Stock " of the Island Herd- 
book. 
Thus your readers will get an idea of the 
high character of theso animals so far as regards 
descent, and I regret I am uot able, without cor¬ 
respondence for which there is no time, to tell 
them anything about tho yield of milk and but¬ 
ter of tbo cows. Let me, however, direct atten¬ 
tion to tho beautiful forms of the udders, the 
good size of the teats and their large milk veins, 
especially well scon in Resita. 
FLAVEL 8. THOMAS, M. D., F. M. M. 8. 
Before I apeak of the common and simpler 
diseases of Domestic Animals, I wish to say a 
Tew words on tho subject cf treatment of animals 
in health. As wo all know an “ounce of pre¬ 
vention is worth a pound of cure ’’ you will see 
this is of much importance. 
Ou feeding horses, almost any man thinks ho 
knows enough to feed a horse, but really, not 
one in fifty, who owns horses, knows scarcely 
anything about it. It is true 
they can throw over into tho 
manger hay and grain. This is 
feeding in ono sense of the 
word, but at tho same time you 
may be spoiling tho animal. 
The majority of farmers feed 
regularly either three or four 
times a day. This is all right, 
but here is where the trouble 
comes in : every time they hap- 
t , P en in the bam, they throw 
if;. from a handful to an armful 
"A#; t/vts of ha y Mr tho crib, so that 
^ i the horse is eating most of 
the time, especially when the 
owner is at work about the barn. 
Most horses will eat tho greater 
part of the time, just because 
Rw .j they havo nothing else to do. 
If you don’t understand this, 
juHt notice how much a hard¬ 
working, laboring man will eat 
on Sunday when lm has not 
much else to do or think of. 
Aud if you want to know how 
tho horse feels, Just eat three 
hearty meals, beside live or six 
lunches, and then see how 
much you feel like running a milo or moving at 
all. 
I am now speaking especially of horses which 
are not used much, excepting as road horses. 
Of course, a heavy truck-horse can oat more, 
especially if 1m is used most of the time to work 
it off, but then even they should bo fed regu¬ 
larly ; that is, have three regular meal-times 
and no luncheons. But what is tho result of 
feeding a roadBter in this irregular way ? Here 
it is: Cow-belly, no life, disease, cow-gait on 
the road—all this beside tho waste of feed. 
Then there is another evil which arises from 
irregular feeding. As the animal has been 
taught to expect feed every timo, or nearly 
every time its master comes into tho stable, it 
oannot hoar footsteps in or uoar the stable 
without pawing tho floor and whinnying for some- 
thing to eat. This keeps up a nervous expect¬ 
ancy, which tends to mako the animal nervous 
and fretful all the time. 
Just as sure as you aro alive, an ugly man 
will make an ugly horse. Give an ugly man tho 
kindest, tho best dispositloned horse aud in a 
year the horse will match the man well, as far as 
ugliness goes. But also a gontle master makes 
a gentle horse—I don’t think this last would bo 
true if the horse was quite old and had had an 
ugly master all its life, but even then kindness 
would have a marked effect. Don’t shout at 
is quite likely to occur if the gates are left hang¬ 
ing. If no convenient place is had for storing 
the gates, it is still well to take them off the 
hinges and set them snugly against the fence, to 
which they should be securely tied. It will be 
but little work to re-hang your gates when the 
prize of §300, offered by the Jersey Club and 
awarded under the authority of the Centennial 
commissioners. 
The animals whose portraits are here given 
are Lord Byron 707, solid black, bred on tho 
Island of Jersey, by Capt. Labey. His Sire 
In Cotting Corn Stales fob Fodder, un¬ 
less they are meant for sheep, or are very thick, 
two laches is quite short enough. If too short, 
the hard pieces will be crowded into the mouth 
endwise, wounding tho gums aud making the 
mouths so sore, that hunger alone can make tho 
animals touch cut stalks. 
the horse, at the top of your voice. " Stand up 
there 1’’ "Stand over there!” Just as well to 
Bpeak gently and lightly, but gently pat or push 
him if necessary. He will soon find you mean 
to be kind aud will try to outao you iu kindness 
and readiness to obey. No one, excepting a 
