Farmer and stockbreeder . es will turn up from themost unexpected sources, and it is always pos- sible that the wheat market may be swamped ina couple of years. The reasonable assurance of agood market for the next crop is not sufficient toentice farmers to make alterations in theirmethods which would commit them for severalseasons. • * • We record elsewhere some observations whichhave been made with regard to the depredationof rats. There is no question that rats inflicta heavy tax on agriculture and other or isolated efforts to reduce the depre-dations are of little avai
Farmer and stockbreeder . es will turn up from themost unexpected sources, and it is always pos- sible that the wheat market may be swamped ina couple of years. The reasonable assurance of agood market for the next crop is not sufficient toentice farmers to make alterations in theirmethods which would commit them for severalseasons. • * • We record elsewhere some observations whichhave been made with regard to the depredationof rats. There is no question that rats inflicta heavy tax on agriculture and other or isolated efforts to reduce the depre-dations are of little avail, and concentratedmeasures are necessary to reduce the pest to anyconsiderable extent. • • • At Uttoxeter County Court the other day theFarniers Union brought a test case regardingthe liability of road authorities for accidents tohorses on slippery roads. The law, as laid downby the judge, is that the authorities are not re-sponsible for making a road that is safe, but are^ required only to use reasonable eye originates in the mouth, and infects through tha ti lifv^*?*?^ «ee on owning the beak. It ib infectious, and the sick or suspected should be removed to another place. Wesh^thevr mouths with salt and water, but do not letthem swallow it. Make a solution of oneperoxide of hydrogen and six parts of •water endsyringe through the palate cleft. Cut open th^ sfcnon the outside while the fluid contents can be eesUvevacuated, and with a smaU oamel-hair brush wwhout the cavity. Every night they should be Feld udby the heels, and the discharge drained on to paperand that paper burned. Give a nighUy pill of halfa gram each of sulphate of iron and extract o£gentian. Feed weU and keep clean, or they wmnever do any good.—Vrt. ^ EUPTTTEED COLT (G. L.). _ No truss wiQserve for scrotal hernia.—Vet. POSTMOfiTEHS Post-mortem examination* of poultry ar« eon-4ucted at the nominal charj;* of U. Itforwarded r>y post they must be gent at the Ittterrats of postage, and
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