AROUXD THE FARM. 259 



" ripe " aud ready for use. One end of the bDo, if built along the ground, may 

 be opened and the ensilage cut out and fed as it is wanted. Its quality will 

 depend on the crops of which it is made and the care with which they are 

 packed away. Nearly all animals will eat it; cattle like it and thrive on it, 

 and for milch cows it is particularly valuable, as it increases their flow of 

 milk and keeps them in cheerful, healthy condition. 



Wliat Goes wlih a Farm — When a farm is bought or sold, questions 

 often arise as to what goes with it, and disputes may often be avoided if 

 farmers know just what their farm deeds include. In brief, says Mr. Haigh, 

 of the Detroit bar, m the Amet-ican Agricuiturist, where no reservations are 

 made in the deed, the conveyance includes the land, the buildings upon it, 

 and all such chattels or articles as have become so attached or fixed to the 

 soil or to the buildings, as to become what is known in law as " fixtures." 

 WTiat constitutes a fixture depends largely on the intention of the owner in 

 putting it there, and also upon the manner in which it in affixed. Anything 

 so affixed to the roll or the buildings that it cannot be removed without in- 

 jury nearly always goes with the farm, and anything of a permanent nature, 

 fitted for permanent use, and annexed thereto by the owner with that inten- 

 tion, generally goes with the land, though it might be severed without any 

 injury, as the following example* will illustrate: All fences on the farm go 

 Tsithout, but not fencing materials, as rails, etc.; if bought elsewhere and 

 piled uj)on the firm, and not yet built into a fence, they have never yet been 

 "annexed." But rails built from timber standing on the farm and piled up 

 for future use go with it; their original annexation is not severed by being 

 changed from standing trees to rails. If, however, they were cut with the 

 intention of using them elsewhere than on the farm, they would then be per- 

 sonal property and would not pass. The bare intention in the mind of the 

 owner in this instance makes the difference between real estat* and personal 

 propertj-. Hop poles, if they have once been used upon the farm, are re- 

 garded as a part of it, though at the time of sale they are stored away for 

 future use. Loose scaffold poles, however, laid across the beams of a bam, 

 have been held not to be a part of the realty. Standing trees, of course, are 

 a part of the farm; so are trees cut or blown down, if left where they fall, 

 but not if corded up for sale; the wood has then become personal property. 



To Tan Hideo — We think that many farmers would tan sheep and other 

 skins, with the hair and wool on, if they were told how. They are very con- 

 venient for sleighs, wagons, house rugs, aud many other purposes. We give 

 the following from a reliable sotirce, remarking that it is essentially the same 

 that wo found in use by the trapj)ers and hunters in the wilderness: AU 

 fatty and fleshy matter should first be removed from the skin, and with 

 sheep skins the wool should be washed clean with soft soap and water, and 

 the suds be thoroughly rinsed out. For each skin take four ounces of salt, 

 four ounces of alum, and half an ounce of Iwrax; dissolve these in one quart 

 •f hot water, and when cool enough for the hand to bear, stir in sufficient 

 rye meal to make a thick paste. This paste is to be spread thoroughly over 

 every part of the flesh side of the skin, which is then to be folded together 

 lengthwise, and left for two weeks in an airy place. Then remove the paste, 

 wash and dry the skin, "When nearly dry, it must be worked and pulled, 

 and scraped with a blunt knife made for the purpose, shaped like a chopping 

 knife, or with a piece of hard wood worked to a sharp edge. The more the 

 skin is worked and scraped as it dries, the more pliable it wjU b«. Qtb«r 

 fwfl can be tamaed with th<i! fur on, 



