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house, but not yet attached or fitted to it (40 Vt. 233). 

 Lightning-rods also go with the house, if a New-England 

 farmer is foolish enough to be overcome by those smooth- 

 tongued lightning-rod agents ! 



A furnace in the cellar, brick or portable (4 E. D. Smith, 

 275 ; 75 111. 38"5 ; 39 Conn. 362), is considered a part of the 

 house ; but an ordinary stove with a loose pipe running into 

 the chimney is not (24 Wend. 191), while a range or grate 

 set in brick-work is (7 Mass. 432 ; 33 N. H. 104 ; 2 B. & C. 

 76). Mantel-pieces so attached to the chimney as not to be 

 removed without marring the plastering go with the house ; 

 but, if merely resting on brackets, they may be taken away 

 by the former owner without legal liability (102 Mass. 517). 

 It is not yet fully settled in Massachusetts, whether a deed 

 of a house includes the gas-fixtures therein or not, though it 

 is generally understood, that, if a lessee puts in his own gas- 

 fixtures, he may remove them when his lease expires (108 

 Mass. 193 ; 1 Duer, 363). The pumps, sinks, &c., fastened 

 to the building, are a part of it in law (99 jNIass. 457), and so 

 are the water-pipes connected therewith, bringing water from 

 a distant spring (97 Mass. 133). If the farmer has iron ket- 

 tles set in brick-work iiear his barn for cooking food for his 

 stock, or other similar uses, the deed of his farm covers them 

 also (19 Pick. 314), as likewise a bell attached to his barn to 

 call his men to dinner (102 Mass. 514; 36 Conn. 86). A 

 cider-mill goes with the apple-orchard, and not with last 

 year's crop of apples (41 N. H. 504). If he has a cattle-barn 

 on the premises, the tie-up planks, stanchion-timbers, tie- 

 chains, and hinge-hooks used for fastening the animals in 

 their stalls, belong to the barn, and not to the cattle (41 

 N. H. 513). If the farmer indulges in ornamental statues, 

 vases, &c., permanently erected, and resting on the ground 

 by their own weight merely, and sells his estate without 

 reservation, these things go with the land (12 N. Y. 170). 

 But even this might not be so, if the article had just arrived, 

 and never been placed or fitted to its position on the lawn 

 (17 N. H. 282). 



HIEESTG HELP. 



After taking possession of the farm, one of the first, and 

 often one of the most trying duties of the farmer is to hire 

 his help. Every employer of labor knows full well, that if a 



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