Horses, as well as some other domestic animals, foretell the coming of rain, by starting more than ordinary, and appearing in other respect restless and uneasy on the road.
Horses and mules very lively without apparent cause indicate cold.
When horses assemble in the corner of a field, with heads to leeward, expect rain.
Kine, when they assemble at one end of a field with their tails to windward, often indicate rain or wind. During the dead calm before a storm we may often see them extending their nostrils, with the head upwards, snuffing the air; this prognostic has been noticed of old by Virgil, and after him by Lord Bacon and others.
Mole.
If the mole dig his hole two feet and a half deep, expect a very severe winter; if two feet deep, not so severe; if one foot deep, a mild winter.
When the moles throw up the earth, rain follows soon.
Musk-rat.
The musk-rats build their houses twenty inches higher and very much warmer in early and long winters than in short ones.
Noise.