1904. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
5i 7 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
We are now getting a great many let¬ 
ters telling about the Ruby Queen rose 
sent out about two years ago. Here is a 
note from an Illinois farmer that reached 
us to-day: 
The Ruby Queen lived through the past 
hard Winter on the wires; a Winter that 
killed peach, plum and cherry trees, grape¬ 
vines, etc. I think you can sa.'ely recom¬ 
mend it as hardy for Illinois, a. g. guiggs. 
Illinois. 
This plant has justified all that we ex¬ 
pected of it when we decided to distribute 
it to our R. N.-Y. friends. Next year and 
the year following we shall be hearing 
about the Philadelphia, which has been 
distributed this year. The Philadelphia 
will be even more popular than the Ruby 
Queen. It is more showy, and will be 
found entirely hardy. While an occasional 
one has been reported lost, the great bulk 
of letters received speak most highly of 
the plant. After losing the first leaves it 
has leafed out afresh and is making rapid 
growth. Those who have nursed it in 
pots report exceptional progress. We are 
now closing out the last shipments. 
TALKS WITH A LAWYER. 
Error in Assignment. 
Last Fall I bought a mortgage against a 
farm in this State, Delaware, from a resident 
of District of Columbia. By oversight the as¬ 
signment was made to Jones li. White, and 
recorded on county records in Delaware, when 
it should have been made to John A. "White. 
How can I have the matter adjusted and 
righted on county records? There is no ques¬ 
tion in the matter; just a mistake and over¬ 
sight. J. a. w. 
Delaware. 
If there is such a person as Jones H. 
White to whom the assignment might 
have run, the error could be simply cor¬ 
rected by getting from him a further as¬ 
signment of the mortgage to John A. 
White. If, however, there is no such indi¬ 
vidual. or if he should refuse the assign¬ 
ment, it would be best to procure from the 
resident of the District of Columbia who 
sold the mortgage, another assignment, 
which should recite that the mortgage had 
been sold by him to John A. White, who 
paid the consideration for it, and to whom 
it was delivered; that through an error 
the purchaser was described in the assign¬ 
ment as Jones H. White, and that this 
second assignment is given for the pur¬ 
pose of correcting the error and properly 
describing the person who actually pur¬ 
chased the mortgage, paid the considera¬ 
tion and to whom it was delivered. This 
second assignment can be recorded in the 
records. 
Right of Way on School Land. 
In the year 1865 the township school board 
voted unanimously to purchase a certain 
piece of land for school purposes, and pro¬ 
ceeded to bui.u. the building. At present we 
can find no record, writings, contract or 
agreements further than the minutes of the 
meeting to purchase at price offered, $50. 
In 1867-68 the Lehigh Valley Railroad was 
built. Soon the canal was abandoned, and 
other business has come along, and things 
now stand so that heirs of the original owner 
of the land run a feed mill, coal yards and 
scales adjacent. They and the public in gen¬ 
eral make a public road on both sides of the 
schoolhouse, and sometimes cornerways and 
all over. Traflic in general, loading and un¬ 
loading hay, grain, potatoes and stone at 
railroad cross here and sometimes cut holes 
and ruts a foot or more deep. The taxpayers 
and patrons of this, the sub-district of the 
township, have asked, coaxed, begged and pe¬ 
titioned the school board to make a road on 
one side of these grounds and protect the 
remainder and have a decent school ground. 
They refuse, and the heirs of the original 
owner try to intimidate them. After 39 
years’ possession can this ground be fenced 
and protected, and how proceed? w. b. 
Pennsylvania. 
Of course if the school board cannot 
show a title to the land sold to it in 1865 
for school purposes, it would be impos¬ 
sible for it to prevent the public from 
using the private roads on either side of 
the school house. Unless the board can 
prove that a definite parcel of land was 
legally conveyed to it, it would have no 
greater rights than the public generally. 
The fact that a school was built upon a 
portion of the tract, and occupied foi 
school purposes since 1865, would not give 
the board a title such as to enable it to 
close up the private roads in question, 1 
because the public has been using these 
roads during this time, and the school 
board cannot be said to have been in 
actual exclusive possession of the entire 
tract of land. Title by adverse posses¬ 
sion can be acquired only to the lands 
which are actually in the exclusive pos¬ 
session of the party claiming the title. 
Such is not the fact in this case, and we 
are afraid that the school board has no 
right to fence in and close up the roads 
in question. As a practical matter, how¬ 
ever, if in fact the school board did close 
up the road way on one side and insisted 
upon keeping it closed, the public would 
probably acquiesce. 
CLOVER NOTES 
I grow clover and Timothy together, and 
begin haying about July 5 to 10; cut with 
mower and rake in windrows as soon as part 
cured, and draw to stack with wheel buck 
rake; never stir it unless it gets rained upon. 
Haying lasts about three weeks. There is not 
much sale for clover hay except to neighbors 
for feed. I find it good for all stock, but 
best for cows with one feed a day of sweet 
corn fodder. The clover crop of this part 
of the country is good, and most of the 
farmers sow clover with Timothy. We sow 
clover with small grain, as the Fall feed will 
pay for seed. a. r. n. 
Clarion, ,owa. 
I have no clover to cut this year, having 
plowed up the last piece this Spring, because 
it was so badly mixed with Blue grass and 
gopher mounds, and the last seem to be spoil¬ 
ing every piece of clover I have seen lately. 
I have about 20 acres of prairie grass for 
feeding my horses, which I like better. When 
the clover is within a reasonable distance of 
the barnyard we gradually cut it when it is 
about two-thirds brown (that is the blos¬ 
soms), cutting it when the dew is off and let 
it lie till we cannot wring any moisture from 
it; then make it into windrows if the weather 
is favorable; if not fork into cocks and let it 
lie till next afternoon and haul in. if too 
far from the barn and we do not want to 
cross the field we let it lie a little longer, 
then take a bucker (or as called by the manu¬ 
factory, an Acme rake), which takes up two 
swaths of the mower and carries it to where 
we want it stacked, and by depositing it on 
both sides (as we stack by hand) to keep the 
stack from settling faster on one side than 
the other; finish up with a rake to take up 
the scatterings. On the big jobs they use 
two or more buckers, delivering to a stacker, 
worked by one horse and two men to take 
care of the stacking. I have never seen a 
loader bub what was heavy on the team and 
hard on the pitcher. We have a hay carriei 
to deliver it where wanted in the 50-foot 
barn. Our haying lasts a week in good 
weather, but sometimes it-has dragged over a 
month, according to the weather. It is cut 
generally about June 20 to July 4, but if the 
corn is weedy or it is growing so fast that it 
has to be cultivated then or never the clover 
is let go for the corn. The only sale for 
clover hay is to farmers as a general thing. 
Very few buy for their horses, as it gives 
them the heaves, and is fed to cattle and 
sheep. Timothy is cut and fed to horses and 
cattle in great quantities here where they do 
not have prairie grass to cut. Corn and oats, 
ground and whole, are fed with clover. But 
many are sowing Sorghum seed broadcast 
about the 1st of July, very thick, and cutting 
it when the seed turns black; let it lie till it 
gets cured, then pile it up in cocks like hay, 
leaving it in the field till wanted, and they 
think it is the best and cheapest feed thej 
can get; generally from five to 10 acres ac¬ 
cording to the number of cattle they have. 
Many acres of corn are cut up and shredded 
also for feed. R. c. s. 
Campbell, Iowa. 
As I raise no crop of clear clover I will 
tell you how some of my neighbors handle 
theirs. They cut it as soon as in full bloom, 
which is about June 15 to July 1. This yeai 
it will be about June 25 when it is begun. 
They cut it down, let it dry out a little on 
top, then put the hay tedder on and stir it 
up. As soon as nearly dry they begin haul 
ing with two to three teams. With one hay 
loader and a boy to drive teams they can 
easily put up 10 to 20 loads per team a day. 
It takes about 15 minutes for two men to 
load a large load of hay. Some can do better 
than that, and about the same time to unload 
with a horse fork. The hay loader and horse 
fork are two of the best tools a farmer has. 
The mow is generally a seven-foot cut, al 
though there are some who have eight and 
nine-foot cuts and some four, five and six feet. 
I grow Timofliy and clover mixed, equal 
parts; also have about 15 acres of fine slough 
hay. Our hay loader works perfectly over 
the rough slough ground. Nearly all the 
clover kilted out the past Winter; some have 
seeded down some new fields of clover. Clovei 
hay is not sold here to dealers, as there seems 
to be no demand, although the farmers who 
run short on feed buy it. It is fed principally 
to milch cows, as it produces very rich milk 
Some feed to horses, but I consider it to be 
too dusty for horses. They feed bran and 
middlings mixed with ground corn and oats, 
and a great many feed shredded corn fodder 
with it. The clover if cut early will make a 
nice second crop by the middle of August. 
The haying season generally lasts about two 
weeks. w. l. c. 
Colvin Park, III. 
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A WIFE’S CONFESSION. 
Of course every one knew when they 
were engaged and every one pretended to 
be surprised when 
they heard it was 
suddenly broken 
off. It was first said 
she had broken it 
off, then that his 
iheart had changed, 
but finally she con¬ 
fessed that she had 
been so irritable, so 
depressed and blue 
that she had fairly 
driven him away. 
Her good looks were 
vanishing. She was 
getting thin, pale, 
and hollow-cheek- 
ed, with dark circles 
around her eyes. 
Suddenly all society 
was pleased again to 
hear of the engage¬ 
ment being renew¬ 
ed, and it was not 
long before a beau¬ 
tiful and radiant 
bride was taken to 
the altar. She had 
regained her good looks, her former happy 
disposition and strong nerve all through a 
secret a friend gave her. A few bottles of 
Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is what 
made two more lives happy and a radiant 
bride more beautiful than she had ever 
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of remarkable and uniform cures, a record 
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and weaknesses peculiar to women ever 
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fully warranted in offering to pay $500 in 
legal money of the United States, for any 
case of Leucorrhea, Female Weakness, 
Prolapsus or Falling of Womb which they 
cannot cure. All they ask is a fair and 
reasonable trial of their means of cure. 
Mrs. O. O. Scripture, of Prescott, Ariz., L. Box 
536 , write* : ” For nearly two years I was a great 
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For Information 
as to Fruit and Trucking Lands, Grazing Lands. 
Soil and Climate in Virginia, North and South 
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama & Florida along the 
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad 
Write to AYILRUR M’COY Agricultural and 
Immigration Agent, Jacksonville, Fla. 
THE 
RIDEAU 
LAKES. 
The Rideau River, lakes and 
canal, a unique region, compara¬ 
tively unknown, but affording the 
most novel experience of any trip 
in America. An inland waterway 
between the St. Lawrence River 
at Kingston and the Ottawa River 
at Ottawa; every mile affords a 
new experience. It is briefly 
described in No. 34 of the “ Four- 
Track Series,” “To Ottawa, Ont., 
Via the Rideau Lakes and River,” 
issued by the 
NEW YORK CENTRAL. 
A copy will be mailed free on receipt of 
a two-eent stimp, by George H. Daniels. 
General Passenger Agent. Grand Central 
Station, New York. 
_ 
Union 
Lock 
Poultry 
F encing 
Fits uneven ground without cutting and is easily 
erected. Fine mesh at the bottom for small chicks. 
All horizontal lines are cables, making it strong. 
Made of high grade steel wire, galvanized. The 
largest Poultry Farms use this fence, because it is 
best by every test. It will pay you to try it. 
Get our prices before you buy Farm, Lawn or 
Poultry Fence. We sell you lit Factory 
prices. 
Case Bros., Colchester, Conn. 
NO FARMER SHOULD 
condemn all wire fences until lie l as tried PAGE. 
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eureka:indestructible fence posts. 
Cheap as cedar. Made where used. No freight to 
pay. Great inducements to Agents to work territory. 
For terms, etc., address, with stamp, 
J. W. WYNKOOP. R. K. No. 4, Krie. Pa. 
5END TODAY 
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yon are entitled to get 1 It V A UPC CC HP tl 
the beat fence made. MUVMIlVh I h N If hi 
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THIRTY DAYS' FREE TRIAL 
(or leaa money than the dealer charge* for 
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lion and pricea. 
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7210 Old St., Peorle. lit. 
NEW HOMES 
IN THE WEST 
Almost a half million acres of the fertile ami 
well-watered lands of the Rosebud Indian Res¬ 
ervation, in South Dakota, will be thrown open 
to settlement by the Government in July. These 
lands are best reached by the Chicago & North- 
Western Railway’s direct through lines from 
Chicago to Bonesteel, S. D. All agents sell 
tickets via this line. Special low rates. 
HOW TO GET 
A HOME 
Send for a copy of pamphlet giving full informa¬ 
tion as to dates of opening and how to secure 160 
acres of land at nominal cost, with full descrip¬ 
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resources, towns, schools and churches, oppor¬ 
tunities for business openings, railway rates, 
etc., free on application. 
W. B. KNISKERN, 
Passenger Traffic Manager, 
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The Superior 
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mi , Grand River Ave., Detroit. Mich. 
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BINDER TWINE 
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Clark's Reversible Rush ami ling Plow, cuts a track 4 ft. wide, 1 ft. deep. Will plow 
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His Rev. Disk Plow cuts a furrow d to 10 in. deep, 14 in. 
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