1906. 
537 
TALKS WITH A LAWYER. 
Husband's Right In Property. 
A soldier would like to known whether, 
when he buys a small home, can she sell It 
and dispossess him of a home, it being put 
in her name? What is his right? a. d. t. 
New York. 
If the “soldier” has put the title to his 
home in “her” name, even if she happens 
to be his wife, the home has passed from 
him without recall. He would better make 
as good terms with “her” as possible. 
Rights In Widow’s Property. 
What is the law in North Carolina on the 
following: If a man owns a farm and stock 
and leaves it to his widow, and she marries, 
has she any right to it, or has her latter 
husband any control over it? Can the chil¬ 
dren hold any of said farm? If youngest 
is not of age can they divide it in any way? 
North Carolina. t. h. s. 
If the bequest to the widow was without 
conditions her interest became absolute, 
and the children would have no rights in 
the property except through her. When, 
however, she marries again, the law of 
courtesy, in force in North Carolina, 
gives her husband a life interest in the 
property, provided there is a child born 
by that marriage. If there is no child 
the husband has no right or interest in the 
property. 
Disputed Right of Way. 
When the children from two or three 
farms have for the past 60 or 75 years 
crossed part of another farm in order to 
reach the school house, can the owner of 
that farm now forbid and stop them cross¬ 
ing ids farm, or put up wire fence in such 
a manner as to shut the children off either 
to walk or drive? The distance across is 
one-half mile; around the road, two to 214 
miles. The conditions in Winter are such 
that it is-often impossible to drive through 
the main roads on account of snow for two 
and three days at a time, while through the 
open fields one can drive. Have the parents 
of such children a right to drive across said 
man’s farm to carry the children to and 
from school when the snow is too deep or 
storms too severe for them to walk? This 
has been done for a great many years; now 
a new owner of the farm is objecting. 
New York. J. l. w. 
The subject of how the public gain 
rights in private property otherwise than 
by specific grant is so complicated that 
each case must be decided on its merits. 
Generally speaking, anyone who crosses 
private property without express permis¬ 
sion is a trespasser, and trespassers can¬ 
not gain rights even by being persistent. 
Verbal permission to cross and recross, 
even when never retracted, does not give 
a perpetual right. From the few facts 
given in this case it would seem that no 
rights have been acquired by the public 
against the owners of the real estate. 
MANCHESTER’S DAIRY NOTES. 
Will you inform me whether so-called “mo¬ 
lasses grain” is good feed for work horses? 
At present I feed two-thirds oats, one-third 
cracked corn, with a handful of bran and a 
little linseed meal occasionally. IIow would 
you balance the ration? E. c. 
Brown’s Mills, N. J. 
Personally I have fed only a limited 
quantity of molasses grains, but have had 
enough faith in them to buy a carload re¬ 
cently. Several of our acquaintances have 
fed them, and with good results where 
common sense was used in feeding. One 
man, a very careful, skillful feeder, is 
very enthusiastic over them when fed in 
limited quantity. They are rich in carbo¬ 
hydrates, and usually contain not very 
much protein. Many of them are sold at 
too high a price for their feeding value, 
as the bulk of them use some waste by¬ 
product to which hot molasses is added, 
and then kiln-dried. I should hardly ever 
want to pay much more for them than 
bran or wheat mixed feed. When oats 
or corn are very high, as they are at this 
writing, it sometimes pays to look into 
some of these new feeds. The ration you 
are now feeding is a good one, and can 
hardly be improved as to quality, but per¬ 
haps you can do better in price. I be¬ 
lieve it pays to feed some bran to horses 
—sav a quart a day. Gluten feed is an 
unusually good milk-producing food, but 
the farmer who feeds it in the future will 
probably pay about all it is worth, and 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
perhaps a little more. Nearly, if not all, 
the glucose factories have recently com¬ 
bined under the name of the Corn Prod¬ 
ucts Refining Co., and they put the price 
of feed anywhere they want, and also 
turn it out in such quality as they see fit. 
Most of the glutens are sold with an an¬ 
alysis guarantee of 25 to 27 per cent pro¬ 
tein, but very few approach this in an¬ 
alysis, as found by our experiment sta¬ 
tions. Most of our States now have suffi¬ 
cient laws so that it would seem that this 
swindle might be stopped, but we have 
yet to hear of a single prosecution. We 
recently had four brands of corn distil¬ 
lers’ grains analyzed, and only one came 
up to guarantee. One guaranteed 33 per 
cent protein, yet had only 23 per cent, 
nearly one-third less than its guarantee. 
Write to your experiment station for 
their feed bulletins, and find out about 
the feeds you are buying. 
Within the past week I have talked with 
two men—one a lawyer in New York 
City, who is paying 12 cents a quart 
for his milk. The cheapest he could get 
in his vicinity is eight cents per quart, but 
this 12-cent milk is guaranteed to have 
arrived in the city that morning and to be 
not over 36 hours old. When he saw our 
milk, its color and the amount of cream 
on the top as shown in the bottle, he said; 
“It’s wicked to, sell that milk for six 
cents.” The other man is a dairyman in 
north'ern New York, whose milk goes 
daily to New York City, and he is get¬ 
ting the magnificent sum of 88 cents per 
100 pounds, less than two cents per quart; 
the freight adds another cent, or a frac¬ 
tion over, and where does the difference 
between the three cents and the eight or 
12 cents go? Of course the middleman 
has his troubles, but the dairyman has 
none (?). Cows never get sick, never 
die, require scanty care, hunt their own 
feed and pay the hired help. Is it any 
wonder the boys have left this latter 
farm, and the good man says he does not 
know that lie can get sufficient help to do 
the hoeing and haying? 
H. G. MANCHESTER. 
properly pruned; apple canker; bark-lice; 
methods of grafting; spraying and pruning 
appliances; photographs of orchard work 
with results; a model hotbed; plans and 
specifications for the home garden; straw¬ 
berry plants properly and improperly planted; 
growing plants showing the results of seed 
selection, are some of the horticultural fea¬ 
tures. The forestry exhibit Included speci¬ 
mens of seedling trees ready for planting; 
instruments used in forest measurements; 
samples of wood in all stages of pulp and 
paper making; and large transparencies Illus¬ 
trating forest conditions and forest manage¬ 
ment, with special reference to the farmer's 
wood lot. 
From start to finish this new departure 
in agricultural education in Maine has been 
an unqualified success. The railroads have 
been most generous in contributing the special 
trains and every possible facility for carry¬ 
ing on the work, and the farming public has 
shown marked approval of the undertaking. 
Just what the permanent value of such work 
as this may be, is of course problematical. 
It must, however, serve to awaken an appre¬ 
ciation of the higher possibilities of many 
phases of agriculture in all parts of the State, 
and the many expressions of satisfaction on 
the part of the farmers who visit the train 
are very gratifying to those having the 
matter in charge. w. m. munson. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and 
"a square deal.” See guarantee, page 8. 
MAINE UNIVERSITY FARM SPECIAL 
On .Tune 14 the second “Farming Special” 
of the University of Maine started for a 
sixteen days’ campaign over the lines of the 
Maine Central Railroad. The first campaign 
was carried over the Bangor and Aroostook 
Railroad during the latter part pf April. 
The “Farming Special” is a traveling agri¬ 
cultural college, modeled somewhat after 
similar enterprises in the western states, and 
Is an innovation in the history of agricultural 
education in Maine. The train consists of a 
coach, for the members of the party, and 
three baggage cars, fitted up as agri¬ 
cultural museums. A stop of two hours is 
made at each station on the schedule. The 
waiting people are allowed about one-half 
hour in which to inspect the various exhibits, 
after which two or three short, sharp, prac¬ 
tical talks are given upon the phases of agri¬ 
cultural work specially adapted to the partic¬ 
ular section visited. The cars are then thrown 
open again for further Inspection and the In¬ 
junction. to “ask questions" is well observed. 
The first exhibition car, in charge of Prof. 
W. I>. Hurd, is devoted to the department of 
agriculture of the University and to the ex¬ 
periment station exhibits. Among other in¬ 
structive features are a collection of fun¬ 
gicides and insecticides; seeds and their im¬ 
purities; growing plants of clover, showing 
root tubercles; boxes with growing plants of 
the best soiling crops; apparatus illustrating 
the percolation of water in different soils; 
the testing of seeds; suggestions for home 
mixing of fertilizers; models of various parts 
of domestic animals and numerous other sug¬ 
gestive objects. 
The dairy and poultry car, in charge of 
Prof G. M. Gowell, is always a center of 
interest. Near the model cow stall, which is 
a reproduction of the stalls used in the Unl- 
verstiy stables, the suggestive legend: “A 
clean man In clean clothes can get clean 
milk from a clean cow in a clean barn.” 
carried conviction to many farmers. The 
aerator, the separator and the Babcock tester 
likewise came in for a full share of atten¬ 
tion. The brooder, with about fifty four- 
weeks-old chickens, the Incubator, the cur¬ 
tain-front house, and the trap nest, kept the 
professor with his assistants in the center of 
eager throngs. 
The horticulture and forestry car, in charge 
of Prof. W. M. Munson and Prof. G. E. 
Tower, illustrated various phases of garden, 
orchard, and forest management. Good and 
bad orchard soils; trees properly and im- 
Old-Fashioned Butter Making. —When I 
was a child I saw Grandmother stir cream 
many a time in a 1%-gallon jar that had a 
small bottom. She used a wooden smooth 
stick. I knew If she got butter that way I 
could, so I have stirred cream many years 
when I had but one cow or a small quan¬ 
tity from several cows. I use any kind of a 
jar or bowl that is two or three times larger 
than the quantity pf cream, so as not to spat¬ 
ter it. I use a pudding stick to stir it, or 
a cooking spoon with a round handle, as they 
are easier to hold than a flat handle. A 
spoon is better for a small dish. I wash 
the butter in the same dish until the last 
water is clear, then salt it well, and put 
brine on top of the butter when It is packed 
away, and keep in a good cold cellar, and 
never had it spoil from long keeping in my 
life. I have a small wooden churn, but It is 
easier for me to stir it than to churn, and 
much less work. If cream Is all right it will 
come just as well stirred as churned. If you 
do not grain the cow in Sunyner, be sure 
she gets her salt and all the pure fresh 
water she wants every day, or else do not 
keep a cow, as it will not pay. I raised 
cream In tin pans most of my life, but find 
the granite much better. But the cream¬ 
ers or separators that are used with water 
outside milk are easier and cheaper in 
the end. I have a small one for water. I 
put in the milk, then measure it with a rule 
or yard stick, then put in the same quantity 
of water right from the pump, and in three 
hours you can draw off the milk, then the 
cream Into a jar. I usually let it stand un¬ 
til I am getting supper, and draw it off 
and give the can a good wash in warm water 
and only scald it mornings, taking care not 
to put very hot water on the glass always. 
Lorane, Pa. w. d. l. 
Regular Boarder : How many more 
times am I going to see this same piece of 
pie? Waiter: Dunno, sir. The boss told 
me to keep giving it to you till you et it. 
—Detroit Free Press. 
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