THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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HATCHINCi GAME BIRDS. 
Quite a business is doue in England in 
hatching partridges, quail, pheasants and 
other game birds in inclosed yards. The busi¬ 
ness is somewhat practiced in this country. 
Not very long since we noticed that a poultry 
mau on Long Island had agreed to provide 
5,(XK) pheasants for a sportsmen’s club. The 
birds hatched in this way are fattened and 
sent to the markets or turned into the woods 
and pastures to be “hunted” by so-called 
sportsmen. 
Our illustration, Fig. 31S, shows an arrange¬ 
ment in vogue at Klsenbam Hall, England, 
where many thousands of these birds are 
hatched each year, The little houses or boxes 
are 18x11 inches and 13 inches high in front. 
The front can be closed at night by a sliding 
door. The peus are made of fine wire net¬ 
ting, 10 feet high and two feet four inches 
square. The top is hinged, so that the hen 
can be taken out that way if necessary. At 
Elsenham 124 of these boxes are in constant 
use. 
Large hens, mostly Light Brahmas, are used 
for hatching the eggs. A nest having been 
made in the box with 
Landlord and Tenant.- —In the absence 
of a contract to the contrary, where a tenant 
fails and refuses to pay rent according to the 
terms of his lease when due, such refusal ter¬ 
minates the lease, and he is liable to an action 
by the landlord as “ holding over bis term.” 
In such cases only three days’ notice is re¬ 
quired.—Hendrickson vs. Beesor.—Neb. 
Where one is in possession of land under a 
lease which is conditioned that a failure to 
pay rent when due will work a forfeiture of 
the lease, and waving the right to any notice 
whatever of entry by the landlord upon con¬ 
ditions broken, the landlord may re-enter and 
take possession at any time, and a court of 
equity will thereupon take jurisdiction and 
remove a cloud from the title,—Pendill us. 
Union Min. Co.—Mich. 
Railroad Liability for Killing Cattle. 
—Iu an action against a railway company for 
killing cattle, the condition of the road 
where the cattle came on the track, and not 
where they were killed, is the material point 
in the ease.—L B. &W. Ry. Co. vs. Quick.— 
Iud. 
The Ives Pool Bill. —Frequent inquiries 
are made with regard to the application and 
scope of the above bill, passed at the last ses¬ 
sion of the New York Legislature, aud regu¬ 
lating betting at races aud horse-trots. The 
lies in the rear, cut off from the road, it being 
stipulated that if the land were not used for 
that purpose it was to go back to A at the 
same price at which he sold it to B. Shortly 
after the sale, however, B informed him that 
the project bad fallen through, aud B has dis¬ 
posed of a part of the land to other parties. 
Has A any grounds for suing B for fraud, as 
he sold the land for $200 less than its value, 
on account of B’s representations of the ad¬ 
vantages of the scheme? 
Ans. —If the deed contained the covenants 
requiring the payments at the dates specified, 
it is void if the payments are not made, and a 
second purchaser must pay or may be ejected 
from the land. No verbal agreement in re¬ 
gard to real estate can be enforced. Hence 
the improvements promised cannot be made 
obligatory. 
M. L., Bridgeport, Conn. —If a man marries 
a woman who has real estate inherited from 
her father, and who dies without making a 
will, never having had auy children, what 
part would the husband inherit, they having 
been married 15 years, according to the pre¬ 
sent law in this State? 
Ans.— By a recent Connecticut law the hus¬ 
band would have been entitled to one-half of 
the estate, real and personal, absolutely, in 
case the marriage had taken place since the 
earth and hay, some 
bad eggs are placed 
therein and the hen 
is put on them, with 
the front door down. 
She is not disturbed 
until the next even¬ 
ing, when she may be 
let out to feed, the 
food aud water being 
provided in the pen. 
A truly broody hen 
will at once, after she 
is done feeding, go 
back into the nest; 
aud that, being the 
case, she may have 
good eggs substituted 
for the first ones on 
the evening of the 
second day. Should 
she not appear anx¬ 
ious to return to the 
nest she may be re¬ 
placed thereon; but 
jf this lias to be re¬ 
peated a secoud time 
it will bo better to re¬ 
move her altogether, 
as she will be certain 
to prove nil unreliable 
mother. At Elsen¬ 
ham it is customary 
to take the hen olf for 
twenty minutes in 
the morning, closing 
the door, so that she 
cannot go back on the 
nest for that time, 
and to leave the front 
door open until the 
evening, so that the 
hen can go off at 
other times if she 
desires so to do. 
The hatching of the 
egg-s is finished by means of an iucubator. This 
is a simple machine of water pipes aud tanks 
heated by a stove. When the eggs begin to 
chip iu the nest they are removed to the incu¬ 
bator,aud three hours after hatching are placed 
inanopen “mother,” where they stay two days. 
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ENGLISH HATCHING HOUSE. From Vintou’s Gazette. Fio-. 313 , 
CdtD. 
“ Everi/ Man is presumed to know the Law. 
Nine-tenths of all Litigation arises from Ig¬ 
norance of Law.” 
RECENT DECISIONS OF INTEREST TO 
FARMERS. 
Chattel Mortgage.— The mortgagee of a 
chattel mortgage must have the same record- ’ 
ed, or have the mortgaged goods delivered to 
him, or otherwise the mortgage will not pre¬ 
vail against au attachment levied upon the 
goods by a creditor of the mortgagor.—Citi¬ 
zens’Bank vs. Oldham.—Itul. 
Damages kok Taking Water.— Where a 
town takes the waters of a pond, as it is au¬ 
thorized to do by statute, any person injured 
by the taking is entitled to lull damages for 
the taking of all the water, although the town 
does not put in pipes sufficient to take all the 
water at once. The statute of limitations 
against the claim of damages tiegins to run 
from the time of the taking.—Smith vs. Con¬ 
cord.—Mass. 
Attorney-General has just given the following 
opinion on the matter: 
“First: That only societies or associations 
duly incorporated under a general or special 
act of the legislature for the improvement of 
the breed of horses, or in which improving 
| the breed of horses is one of the objects of the 
incorporation, are authorized to sell pools un¬ 
der the restriction of the act: only such soci¬ 
eties or associations are obliged to pay the five 
per cent, on gross receipts, and only such so¬ 
cieties or associations are iu auy way affected 
by the act. 
“ Second: The said act does not authorize the 
selling of pools by county and town agricul¬ 
tural societies, at their fairs, or impose any 
tax upon the gross receipts of said societies at 
said fairs; nor, iu fact, does it in any way al¬ 
ter the law as it existed at the time of its pas¬ 
sage, in reference to said agricultural societies 
uiul associations, except as they may benefit 
from the provisions of the sixth section 
thereof.” 
C. L. A*, Tullahona, Tenn. —A sells a piece 
of laud to B, on payment of one-third cash; 
balance iu 12 and 18 months. At time of sale 
B gave a deed for the land, iu which the terms 
of payments were specified, but nothing was 
said as to the lien remaining on the laud to 
secure the last payment. Is the land legally 
hound for the last payment. It was also ver¬ 
bally agreed that the land w as to be used for 
a purpose which would greatly euhauce the 
value of the remaiuder of A’s laud which uow 
| 80th of April, 187?. As it took place pre¬ 
viously, it seems to come under the common 
law provision which gives the husband au 
estate for life in the wife’s real property only 
in case there was or had been a child born of 
the union. As there was none, he has no in¬ 
terest. The husband and wife may, under 
Chapter 114 of the laws of 1S77, make and file 
an agreement by which their property rights 
will be regulated by that Statute, when, in the 
case described above, the husband would be 
entitled to half his wife's estate, both real and 
personal, absolutely, after her death. 
R. R. M., Kearney , Neb. —Can a married 
woman hold property independent of her hus¬ 
band iu this State, and what right has she iu 
the comniou property ? 
Ans. —The real and personal property be¬ 
longing to the woman at the time of her mar¬ 
riage, together with the rents and profits 
thereof and any property which comes to her 
afterwards except by gift of her husband, re¬ 
main her sole and separate property, not 
subject to the disposal of her husband or lia¬ 
ble for his debts. She may convey and dis¬ 
pose of her property in the same way and 
with like effect as a married mau, and may 
sue and be sued as if uumurried. She may 
also labor aud carry ou business on her sepa¬ 
rate account, aud her earuiugs are her sole 
property. If married out of the State, cure 
in it she may enjoy all rights as to property 
acquired where she was married. The hus¬ 
band is not liable for debts contracted by the 
wife before she was married. A married 
woman is not liable on her note or other con¬ 
tract unless made a charge on her separate 
property. She may dispose of her property 
by will. 
[NEW-YORKER 
Opener 3 am 
In the Eye-Opener of the Rural of May 14 
some remarks were made with regard to the 
“Order of the Iron Hall," a beneficial society, 
with headquarters at Indianapolis, Iud.. “but 
operating chiefly in New York, New Jersey 
and other Eastern States." In sworn testi¬ 
mony taken before Vice-Chancellor Bird, of 
New Jersey, in May. it was charged that 
the organization was a fraud; that it claimed 
100,000 members, and that at the end of seven 
years it will pay either $1,000, $800, $600, 
$400 or $200 to each member according to the 
class which he may enter, each of the $1,000 
class being assessed at various intervals for 
amounts aggregating about $350 at the expi¬ 
ration of the seven years, and the other 
classes proportionately. During sickness or 
other disability $5 per week, it was said, are 
paid to the $200 class 
and a proportionate 
amount to the other 
classes, such pay¬ 
ments to be deducted 
from premiums to be 
paid in seven years. 
It was stated that the 
expenses of each 
branch “are paid 
from the assess¬ 
ments.” Other par¬ 
ticulars were also 
given. 
After a long inter¬ 
val, an official of the 
association writes us 
from Hornellsville, 
N. Y,. controverting 
some of the state¬ 
ments mentioned, 
aud, of course, up¬ 
holding the integrity 
of the body with 
which he is connect¬ 
ed. In five years’ 
connection with the 
order he has never 
seen au official docu¬ 
ment that claimed a 
membership of over 
20,000 or thereabouts. 
He objects to the 
statement that the 
association operates 
“chiefly in New 
York, New Jersey and 
the Eastern States,” 
because it has 
branches in many 
other States also. 
He denies that the 
expeuses ‘‘are paid 
from the assess¬ 
ments,'’ because they 
are paid from a gen¬ 
eral fund raised by an 
assessment or tax of $1 a year upon each mem¬ 
ber. He maintains, contrary to the assertion 
that “ no satisfactory statement of accounts 
has been made, and that the reports submitted 
have been cooked," that "a full and detailed 
statement is given by the supreme officers to 
their membership and the public as often as 
necessary for a full understanding of the pro¬ 
gress of the order.” 
He says a lot of disgruntled people formerly 
connected with the Iron Hall aud familiar 
with its workings, lately appropriated most of 
its features and formed an association under 
the name of Iren Hall, incorporating the 
venture under the laws of this State, thus pre¬ 
venting the “original Iron Hall” from secur¬ 
ing incorporation. The new Ireu Hall cannot, 
however, be the order complained of iu New 
Jersey last May, because it was clearly stated 
that that was of Indiana origin and had 
existed six years. Our correspondent very 
truly says we “ would not. intentionally do au 
iujury to any person or association,” therefore 
we give a full abstract of his letter iu so far as 
it relates to the statements that appeared in 
the Rural. For the truth of these state¬ 
ments we were in uo way responsible. Our 
article was, ou the face of it, a mere abstract 
of the sworn evidence taken before Vice- 
Chancellor Bird, one of the highest judicial 
officers of New Jersey, and so much weight 
did he attach to it that, ou May 3, he issued an 
injunction restraining the officers located in 
New Jersey from transacting any business or 
disposing of the money on\hand until the 
