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THIS RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 21. 
THE HEN ON THE FLAG. 
[A request has been made for the 
rhymes which were first read at a poul¬ 
try meeting In Providence, It. I., 14 years 
ago. Here they are. 1 
The fierce old eagle on the flag has had 
his praises sung 
By poets and by orators, since this fair 
land was young. 
A wicked, hard old fighter he, but in our 
peaceful day, 
A weary old back number is the selfish 
bird of prey. 
Old Uncle Sam, from war’s alarms, may 
now take long release, 
Beneath his vine lie now has time to ply 
the arts of peace. 
Your Uncle needs no fighting bird out in 
his peaceful pen. 
Far better let the eagle go and raise the 
Business lien. 
The eagle and the old war flags, with faded 
stripes and stars, 
May better serve as memories of battle- 
painted scars. 
Aye! Let them serve as memories—a heri¬ 
tage of fame 
That generations yet unborn may in all 
justice claim. 
But, in these piping times of peace, the 
eagle off his perch 
May wisely step; and when with care, 
Old Uncle Sam shall search, 
A substitute. I nominate our friend. The 
Business lien. 
A worthy type of energy and skill for all 
time men. 
Down with the eagle from the flag, down 
with his motto—slay! 
Up lively, with The Business Hen and 
make that motto lay! 
Far better is the cackle when an honest 
egg is born 
Than that wild eagle’s screaming when a 
human life is torn. 
Yes, give the hen a roosting place above 
the starry flag. 
The Business lien! Long may she wave! 
The country’s pride and brag, 
And bred to patriotism, from her healthy 
eggs we’ll hatch 
The spunk to keep our Yankee land still 
toeing at the scratch. 
_H. w. c. 
The Curse of Pheasants. 
I have just read an article, “The Curse 
of Pheasants,” by J. Q. Wells, on page 
106, and will say it beats all how some men 
act. They do not want* any birds or game 
in the country. If there is they want to 
pot it as quick as they can. I am a farmer 
and a sportsman. I love to shoot and fish 
when I can get time. We have a few 
pheasants here; T hope they will become 
plentiful, as Mr. Wells claims they are in 
his county. I am willing to allow them 
all the grain they will eat; certainly I 
would rather the pheasants would have it 
than the crows. Crows destroy more corn 
in Cayuga County than all the pheasants 
in the State of New York. I hope the 
Legislature will go slow in making it law¬ 
ful for pheasants to be shot out of sea¬ 
son. I am pleased to read that the boy 
was punished for shooting the pheasant; 
it will go hard with anyone I catch shoot¬ 
ing them out of season. Undoubtedly I am 
not the only farmer in the State who is a 
sportsman. w. H. D. 
Auburn, K Y. 
Why do not the farmers of Ontario 
County go to work and protect their farms? 
I do not believe that any court in the 
country would try to prevent a man from 
protecting his premises from robbers, either 
human or feathered. It is one of the in¬ 
herent rights that a man has, and no stat¬ 
ute can dpprive him of it. If the farmers 
would unite on a test case I believe that 
the courts would sustain them, statute or 
no statute, for the common law is common 
sense. In some States there is a close 
season for rabbits, and they become a nui¬ 
sance to farmers and fruit growers, solely 
that idle fellows with gun and dogs can 
have what they call sport. In States where 
there is no close season for rabbits it has 
been found that they are still plentiful, 
and need no protection. In some parts of 
New England we hear that the protected 
deer are becoming a nuisance to farmers. 
Years ago in Virginia they tried to prose¬ 
cute a farmer and sheep breeder for es¬ 
tablishing a shot-gun quarantine against 
dogs on his farm, but he won out, as the 
court decided that he had the right to pro¬ 
tect his farm against enemies to his flock. 
Let the farmers of Ontario chip in and pro¬ 
tect one of their number in protecting his 
farm, and I beleve that the matter would 
be settled. Many years ago, in a Maryland 
county, the fanners wanted to stop cattle 
from running at large on the roads, and 
consulted a lawyer as to what sort of a 
law should be enacted. He told them that 
there was no statute requiring a farmer to 
fence his farm in that county, but that the * 
common law doctrine, that every man is 
responsible for his own stock and not for 
his neighbor’s, prevailed there. lie advised 
them to leave their road gates open, and to 
arrest all cattle trespassing on the fields. 
They did so, and now cattle are kept off 
the roads there without any statute. Every 
man has the right to protect his premises 
from wild animals that destroy his crops. 
It is one of the rights that no sportsman 
statute can destroy. w. f. massey. 
The Hen’s Roosting Place. 
Will Mr. Cosgrove give his opinion as to 
the space required per hen for roosts, and 
how far apart should the roosts be? Is 
six inches high from the droppings board 
sufficient. s. 
Fulton Co., N. Y. 
Six inches in length of roost will ac¬ 
commodate Leghorns and eight inches or 
7 l /2 inches will answer for Wyandottes, 
Plj'rnouth Rocks, etc. This is for Win¬ 
ter, when the fowls keep much warmer 
at night if touching each other. In Sum¬ 
mer they should not be required to roost 
so close together. Roosts should be 15 
inches apart, and at least a foot above 
the droppings board, so the hens can 
easily pass under the roosts. 
GKORGE A. COSGROVE. 
Improving the Poultry. 
What is the number of eggs usually laid 
by White Leghorn hens the third and fourth 
years, where they have not been selected 
by trap nests? What is the best method 
for fhe general farmer to improve the lay¬ 
ing qualities of his hens without the use 
of trap nests. G. w. s. 
South Woodstock, Vt. 
Part of the question I cannot answer, 
as I do not know how many eggs the 
average hen of three or four years of 
age will produce, but we have found 
them profitable layers at five years. 
Old hens are not as profitable as 
younger hens or pullets, because of the 
difficulty to persuade them they should 
lay in November and December, when 
prices are the highest. The best method 
for the average farmer to select his 
breeders is by shape and vigor, then by 
familiarity with them he will be able to 
find out those who are “boarders” and 
discard them, but don’t throw out a hen 
in the Fall because she looks disreputa¬ 
ble. She is probably your best hen, 
and her continued laying may have 
weakened her so that only the best care | 
will save her. floyd q. white. 
Towne: “So you were in London, eh? 
How did you find the weather there?” 
Browne: “I didn’t have to find it. It j 
came and hunted me up, and surrounded j 
me in chunks.”—Philadelphia Press. 
Vicar: “Well, 
Mr. Stoggins, bow are 
you 
to-day ?” 
Cobbler: 
“Very 
bad, 
sir.” 
Vicar: “And what 
is the 
mat- 
ter?” 
Cobbler: 
“Ah, sir, 
it’s my 
legs. 
They be wonderful bad !” Vicar; “Dear 
me! How long have you been like 
this?” Cobbler: ‘Why, sir, these legs, if 
you believe me, I’ve had ’em on and off 
for the last thirty years!”—Punch. 
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