1904 
347 
TALKS WITH A LAWYER. 
BY JOHN E. CONNELLY. 
A Married Man’s Right. 
If A marries a woman with property 
and grown-up children, and she should die, 
what could A claim, if any, of the prop¬ 
erty? R. b. 
Good Ground, L. I. 
If A’s wife dies intestate (without 
making a will) A would receive one- 
third of her personal property. He 
would have no interest whatever in her 
real property, unless issue should be 
born alive. In that event he would have 
an estate for life in such real property. 
Posting Trespass Signs. 
A number of us with adjoining farms 
wish to protect our property and would 
post signs as follows: “No trespassing on 
these premises with dog or gun.” What is 
the law concerning posting? How many 
signs would we have to have painted and 
where placed? w. R. 
New York. 
In order to prevent trespassing upon 
enclosed private property for the pur¬ 
pose of shooting or hunting, you should 
maintain signboards at least one foot 
square, two for each 50 acres. The 
signs should be placed in conspicuous 
places upon or near the lot lines, or 
near the shores of any waters on the 
property. 
Barbed Wire and Lawful Fence. 
L We would like to know the law re¬ 
garding the use of barbed wire for line 
or road fence. 2. I would like to know the 
law regarding building line fences, is any 
owner obliged to build or maintain a line 
fence or part of same? In case the ad¬ 
joining neighbor wishes to pasture, would 
the iirst party be obliged to build half of 
fence? What is a lawful fence? a. p. 
Oswego, N. Y. 
1. In the absence of a special agree¬ 
ment between adjoiniug owners, barbed 
wire is prohibited for fence purposes ex¬ 
cept in the following manner: “The 
fence shall be of four strands of wire 
with a sufficient bar of wood at the top.” 
The size of the top bars of the posts and 
supports of the fence and their distances 
apart are subject to the regulations of 
the local fence viewers. A person build¬ 
ing a barbed wire fence without the 
consent of the adjoining owner is liable 
for all damages occasioned by reason of 
such fence. 2. An owner of property is 
not required to build any line fence, but 
if he fails to build and maintain a just 
and equitable portion of the division 
fence, he has no remedy against his 
neighbor for trespasses committed by 
his neighbor’s animals, while his neigh¬ 
bor can recover from him for any dam¬ 
age done by his animals trespassing on 
the neighbor’s property. What consti¬ 
tutes a sufficient fence depends entirely 
upon the rules and regulations adopted 
by the electors of the town in which 
the fence is located. In the absence of 
.such rules or regulations a division 
fence must be built so that it will be 
proper and suitable for all purposes of 
such fence, and will be reasonably safe 
and not necessarily cause injury to the 
pioperty or animals of the adjoining 
owner. 
Are Trespassing Chickens “ Wild 
Animals ”? 
An Iowa chicken case (and 1 think one 
from Illinois) was carried to the Supreme 
Court of the United States, and in the 
Iowa case it was held that chickens tres¬ 
passing are “ferae natural,” and the owner 
of land can kill them with impunity, and l 
should gather and eat them, too, if they 
are like other wild birds. I have not the 
report of the case at hand, or would send 
it you. The judges held that one did not 
have to fence against them, as it was a 
practical impossibility. I had a neighbor 
who used to pasture hundreds of chickens 
and turkeys on my grass, and this made 
me interested in the subject. The neigh¬ 
bor’s young chickens took to coming to 
my barn and ruined two litters of collie 
pups, as the pups learned to kill them. 
I did not wait for my neighbor’s upbraid¬ 
ing, but pitched into them first. You 
would be doing good work if you verified 
my account of this Iowa case and then 
spread it broadcast, as chickens cause 
more bad blood between neighbors than 
anything else. So few people understand 
chickens well enough to make them pay 
unless they get their living, or, anyway, 
half of it, from their neighbors’ land; so 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
the temptation is great to let them stray. 
Washington. e. f. h. c. 
We should like very much to procure 
the title of the United States Supreme 
Court case to which you refer. Chickens 
are ordinarily considered domestic ani¬ 
mals. The owner of lands trespassed 
upon by them has a cause of action 
against the owner of the chickens for 
the damage done by them, but has no 
right to kill them. 
SUNSHINE IN THE SOIL. 
There are some things in this gospel 
of soil culture, as it is being preached 
to-day, that seem to me to be false 
teachings. The purpose of cultivation, 
as so often given, is to stir up the heavy 
soil so as t6 let in the air and sunshine. 
Now I “stall” on this proposition. The 
ideal condition for allowing the air and 
sunshine to get through the soil would 
be either to plow up the soil early and 
leave it lying till planting time without 
any working down, or else allow the 
bare soil to bake and crack open under 
the influence of hot sun and winds. 
Either case would be thorough soil 
aeration, but in either case the soil 
would be sterile as a stone. This Spring, 
when wanting the best soil I could find 
for starting early plants, I dug it from 
under an old building where the sun 
had not shone on it for 40 years. The 
kind of culture that best serves to keep 
the air and sunshine out of the soil will 
give the best crops. A dust mulch it¬ 
self, when thoroughly worked, even 
though it be six inches deep, is all inert 
matter, and all the bacterial and root 
growth takes place in the firm moist soil 
below the mulch. The whole purpose of 
soil culture as it is revealed to me is 
not to let the air and sunshine into the 
soil, but to form a covering to keep it 
out. if this is true, is it not about time 
some of the wise ones should find it out 
and revise their text? f. m. 
Indiana. 
A Cubculio Catcher. —At several of 
the fruit meetings during the past Win¬ 
ter the implement shown at Fig. 148 has 
been exhibited. As will be seen, it is 
like a stout umbrella upside down, and 
hung on wheels like a wheelbarrow. In 
operation the machine is run under the 
A CURCULiO CATCHER. Fig. 148. 
tree, which is then jarred by striking 
the body or lower limbs with a padded 
mallet. The insects drop upon the 
frame of the machine and roll down into 
a little box, where they can be caught 
or killed. The machines were exhibited 
by C. H. Darrow, of Geneva. 
Look Out for Milk Fever. 
E. B. C., Plainville, O —Will you give a 
preventive for milk chill, or as it is more 
commonly called in this section of the 
country, milk fever; also treatment for 
same where a case has developed? I lost 
my best cow recently with it, although in 
the hands of one of our best veterinarians, 
and as I have more cows to come fresh 
soon, I am a little uneasy. My roughage 
for this past Winter has been principally 
corn stover and Alfalfa, and the mill feed 
bran and cornmeal, with some little malt 
sprouts when they were obtainable. 
Ans.—M ilk fever seems to be more 
common among cows that are in high 
condition, that is, fat; the “slick-look¬ 
ers” as they are called. It also almost 
always attacks cows that are big milk¬ 
ers, the best in one’s herd. Often we 
have heard the saying, “I never knew a 
poor cow to have milk fever.” Cows fed 
too much cornmeal, or on a one-sided 
ration, seem more liable to have it. We 
•should avoid an improper condition of 
our cows by right feeding, and should 
especially avoid feeding much grain 
while dry to cows that were inclined to 
take on fat. Feed hay only until cow is 
thoroughly dry (that is, when drying 
her off), and then only bran, which is 
cooling and loosening. We should pre¬ 
fer other hay to the Alfalfa while dry¬ 
ing the cow. See that her bowels are 
loose at calving time. If necessary give 
a pound of Epsom salts just before calv¬ 
ing and a half pound just after. Avoid 
letting the cow remain where there are 
cold drafts, or giving too much cold wa¬ 
ter. We prefer to give them what luke¬ 
warm water they want just after drop¬ 
ping the calf. They are feverish at this 
time. A quart or two of cold water (not 
more) once in two hours may be given 
if preferred. If in spite of all our care 
she had milk fever we should get a good 
veterinarian just as soon as possible 
after we found she was not right, and 
get him to use the “Schmidt” treatment, 
(iodide of potassium), or perhaps the 
new oxygen treatment. Do not wait un¬ 
til the cow is down and half gone. The 
only case we have had in a number of 
years was last year and she was cured, 
though in bad condition, by the Schmidt 
treatment. _ h. g. m. 
Goi.den Beurre of Bilboa. —Where can 
I find the pear “Golden Beurre of Bilboa,” 
a native of Spain (See Downing, .page 773)? 
It was grown in this country years ago, 
but I cannot find it now. R- R- Q- 
Myerstown, Pa. 
For the land’s sake, use Bowker’s Fer¬ 
tilizers. They enrich the earth.— Adv. 
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S. P. F.CARBOLINEUNI. 
rot and decay and will more than double the life of the silo at a small expense. 
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It protects wood 
forever against 
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There are several pretty good kinds of har¬ 
vesting machines. Any of them will do fairly 
well with an average crop and when everything 
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and tangled or your grass is wet and heavy or 
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