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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Jan. 38 
Those Game Laws. 
B. B., Sangamon County, 111.—I think 
with The Rural that all game should 
be the property of the owner of the land 
on which it is trespassing. He is the 
one who has usually been to the expense 
of feeding the game, and he looks around 
in vain for redress if it proves a nuisance 
to him. No one—not even the Govern¬ 
ment—seems to want a full ownership, 
for then he would have to pay the 
damage done by rabbits to the orchard, 
by geese and cranes to the corn fields, 
and by the reed birds to the rice. 
E. P. R. says: “ The taking of game by 
shooting yields the grandest sport ever 
enjoyed by man.” How does the Society 
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 
swallow this ? More than likely it would 
want the game caught tenderly and 
chloroformed to save unnecessary suf¬ 
fering. 
The fact is it would make but little 
difference if the game was “ practically 
exterminated” as he says, except to a 
few sentimentalists and sportsmen. 
What an unmatched team ! 
But they would not be exterminated if 
there were no game laws, for really the 
laws are a dead letter. The owner of 
the land “ feels it in him” that he has a 
right in the matter that legislation can 
not take from him, and acts accordingly. 
How does he act ? He who fancies quails 
protects the quails on his place. He who 
has no orchard, may not war on the 
rabbit, but the one who has young trees 
always does, no matter what the law is. 
Too many restraining laws ! Individual 
liberty is true liberty. What does it matter 
to me how many rights the State has 
when I myself am in prison ? 
H. S , Macon County, N. C. —I have 
had some years’ experience in regard to 
the hunting of game and the taking of 
fish on an extensive property which I 
own, and it has led me to look into the 
law on this subject. It should be known 
that when there is not an express statute 
existing in regard to it, the common law 
prevails, and this expressly provides that 
any person entering upon the close or 
boundary of another without his consent 
is a trespasser, for whatever purpose he 
may break the close, quasi clausum 
fran^jit. Further, the common law pro¬ 
vides that wild animals as game are 
ferae natures , and originally the property 
of the State, and are thus common prop¬ 
erty, as no one in particular can own 
them. But this is only when they are 
living. As soon as an animal is dead it be¬ 
comes property, and as everything natur¬ 
ally on a person’s land, when dead, is his, it 
follows that as soon as game is killed it be - 
comes the personal property of the owner 
and an ; ppendage of his land. Thus 
any unauthorized person going upon the 
land of another, especially if notices are 
posted so that the public may learn that 
the owner objects to any trespass and in¬ 
dicates in this way his boundaries, 
commits a double offense. The law 
is now sufficient if it were only enforced. 
And this I have found, after an expense 
of hundreds of dollars in stocking my 
land and water, to be more trouble than 
it is worth, and I have given up the fight 
and my game is gone. 
Wool as a By-Product. 
A. E. B., South Haven, Mich. —The 
fine wool breeders have had what legis¬ 
lation they wanted to date, and still 
many have gone out of the sheep busi¬ 
ness ; and very many more have crossed 
their stock with the mutton breeds, and 
a few very patriotic individuals proclaim 
that they will keep their wrinkles pure 
the rest of their lives as a matter of prin¬ 
ciple. Not that the crinkly individuals 
pay so much, but that their society is so 
highly appreciated. They have a royal 
ancestry. It is my opinion that, should 
one of the latter class of breeders live a 
thousand years, he could make some 
money exhibiting some of his one-sided 
animals, provided, of course, that he 
would not change his mind, and I think 
he would not. 
In growing what wool is needed, the 
Merino breeders cannot produce enough 
meat and they complain that wool pays 
little or nothing, and, if the tariff be 
taken off, they would lose that. On the 
other hand, the mutton raisers produce 
meat and the wool is a by-product. 
My neighbor, William Ball, on page 827 
of The R. N.-Y., says that in case wool is 
put on the free list, he will feel like 
giving the sheep industry a wide berth ; 
for he does not believe the business would 
pay in any form. A “wide berth” is 
what many Merino breeders have been 
giving the industry these last few years ; 
and the “berth” widens in an arithmet¬ 
ical ratio. Mr. Ball says, further, of 
the “ wool-growing ” interests : “ The 
business now is barely remunerative,” 
and others claim it is absolutely not 
remunerative. If this is so, “ free wool” 
could injure it but little, or not at all. 1 
cannot conceive any great loss to an in¬ 
dustry which pays but little or no profit. 
Better impose the burden of taxation 
where it will do some good to some one. 
A dollar taken from the people should do 
some one at least a dollar’s worth of 
good. When the beneficiaries admit it 
does not, stop taking it. 
Bordeaux Mixture Clogs. 
P. G., Fulton, N. Y.—I applied the 
Bordeaux Mixture on some potato vines 
the past season with a common hand 
sprinkler and found it very difficult to 
make it run through the rose, as it was 
so thick that it clogged up the holes. I 
think it would have been all right if a 
force pump had been used. The applica¬ 
tion was not made till the vines had be¬ 
come affected, and as there were several 
rains soon after it didn’t seem to do any 
good. 
More Tufted Turkeys. 
A. A. H., Bellows Falls, Vt —In The 
Rural of January 7 Mr. C. E. Chapman 
asks how he can reproduce the tufts on 
his tufted Bronze turkey. I think this 
will be an easy matter, if he still has the 
original tufted bird. If he will mate the 
old bird with the young hens served by 
him in 1892, I think that, in 1893, he will 
get some birds that will show this pecu¬ 
liarity. And by again mating hens in 
1894 to the young hens hatched in 1893, 
he will be quite certain to get a good per 
cent of tufted birds. The above would 
be my method of fixing any particular 
freak in chickens, and I can see no rea¬ 
son why the same rule would not work 
in this case. 
One of my neighbors mated a White 
Langshan cockerel with Barred Plymouth 
Rock hens, and the result was that all of 
the cockerels were barred like the 
Plymouth Rocks, but somewhat darker 
in color, and all the pullets were as black 
as a Black Langshan. As he did not 
like black fowls, I advised him to mate 
this White Langshan cock with the black 
pullets, and the results of this mating 
were all pure white chicks. I would ad¬ 
vise Mr. Chapman to select the best 
young Tom hatched in 1893 (the one 
showing the best crest) and mate him 
in 1894, with one or two of the best 
crested hens of the same year’s hatch, 
and mark the young poults by punching 
holes in the webs of their feet, and 
by breeding these separately, he will 
have two strains, which can in time be 
bred back together to avoid too close 
inbreeding. 
N B. t)., Oakville, Ky. —If Mr. Chap¬ 
man will breed his top-knot gobbler to 
hens of which he is the sire, and repeat 
the mating to the second and third gener¬ 
ation and thus reproduce the top-knot, 
he will know that his gobbler is a case 
of atavism. But if he fails to reproduce 
the characteristic by inbreeding, then he 
may know that the feathers on the head 
come from a freak of nature. Perhaps 
the hen that laid the egg that produced 
the top-knot gobbler at some opportune 
time became excited or frightened at the 
sight of a peacock or some other feather 
headed fowl, 
W. A. S., North Woodbury, Conn. —If 
Mr. Chapman will call on Johnnie 
Tenice of this place he will find a turkey 
with a plume like that shown in Fig 1, in 
The Rural of January 7 Johnnie will 
give all his turkeys for a mate to his 
tufted gobbler. This is the only one in 
all this region. Can a female be found 
for a mate ? If Mr. Chapman will write 
to Tenice, perhaps something may turn 
up to the advantage of both. 
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