1908. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
683 
TALKS WITH A LAWYER. 
Trespassing Lambs. 
My neighbor’s lambs get through the 
wire division fence and injure my orchard. 
What can I do? f. c. s. 
Massachusetts. 
Send a written demand that your neigh¬ 
bor fence in his animals, stating that you 
maintain a legal fence, that he must 
fence them in, and that you do not have 
to fence them out. If he does not keep 
them at home call in the fence viewers 
to inspect the fence. They will report 
as to sufficiency of the fence, repairs to 
be made and distribution of expenses. 
Always keep a copy of such letters. The 
fence viewers have the right to put all 
the cost of repairs on the owner who 
neglects to keep up a proper fence. 
Fencing a Right of Way. 
What is the law as to fencing a right of 
way through another’s land? m. h. n. 
New Jersey. 
A right of way is the privilege of cross¬ 
ing the land at such times as are per¬ 
mitted. The owner cannot call on the 
user to fence it. There is a moral obli¬ 
gation not to bother the owner more than 
possible, but this is not enforceable in the 
courts. 
A CITY MAN IN THE COUNTRY. 
I read The R. N.-Y with great interest, 
and recently noted some discussion of the 
plan of a city man with limited means to 
go to the country. I would like to solicit 
some advice myself. I am a city-bred man 
of 30 years, with a good income. Could I 
by investing two or three thousand dollars 
in a good small farm make enough to live 
nicely and independently without having to 
do any heavy work myself, of course 
adding the income of about $10,000 to the 
proceeds of the farm? My idea would he 
to hire a good man to manage things 
while I would lend a hand when necessary, 
otherwise I would spend my time with 
light work, such as raising vegetables, flow¬ 
ers, chickens, etc. I am not so very 
lazy, hut I am unaccustomed to physical 
work, and would have a farm more for a 
pleasant home than for a revenue producer. 
Would the southwestern States be pre¬ 
ferred to the East? a. n. m. 
Pennsylvania. 
It could he done, hut the man to do it 
must be a good manager, with a capacity 
for handling the labor of others. No 
doubt some of our readers can give experi¬ 
ence. For such an enterprise we would 
choose a location at the East in easy reach 
of markets. __ 
“BIG WING” AND LEG WEAKNESS. 
Some years ago when I first raised Leg¬ 
horns in large numbers, fully 25 per cent 
of the cockerels when about three weeks 
old had drooping wings. Sometimes we 
cut the feathers to help them. In those 
days chicks were fed little and often; a 
balanced grain and wet mash ration with 
little beef scraps and no shell. With the 
advent of hopper feeding the trouble dimin¬ 
ished markedly, hut I found that they would 
eat all the sifted coal ashes I could give 
them, and that started me feeding sifted 
oyster shells. The fine chick shell can he 
bought or the fine particles sifted from the 
coarser shell usually sold, putting a few 
handfuls from the start in each pen with 
the sand and grit. Since feeding this I 
have not seen a case in three years. The 
theory is that the grit always fed goes to 
growth of feathers in the Leghorns, and 
there is not lime enough in the grain and 
grit ration to give sufficient growth to the 
bony framework to support the rapidly 
growing wing feathers. The addition of 
the beef scrap and shell makes the whole 
body grow symmetrically. The same -holds 
true of leg weakness in the heavier breeds, 
which is very common among brooder-raised 
chicks. The addition of beef scraps and 
shell to the ration from the start will pre¬ 
vent it among chicks from healthy stock. 
Lincoln once said that the best investment 
a young man could make was to pick out 
the right father and mother, so all the 
troubles arising among newly hatched 
chicks that are not due to defective hatch¬ 
ing, brooding or feeding, can be prevented 
by breeding only mature healthy birds, 
kept on free range in colony houses from 
Fall until after the hatching season is 
over. Yearling hens mated to cockerels are 
the best; keep your cockerels isolated until 
a month before the breeding season, and 
they will come to the breeding pens with 
strong vitality, which gives good healthy 
germs that hatch and live. 
New York. buciianan bukr. 
1 he Garber Pear.— We have never rec¬ 
ommended the Garber except for polleniz- 
ing purposes, hut as we have recently had 
more inquiries for the trees than heretofore 
we feel that we should like to have the 
opinion of others as to its quality. 
HOOPES, BRO & THOMAS COMPANY. 
Wood Ashes With Manure; 
Would it be wise to put stable manure, 
hen dung, and ashes together in a shed 
where it is trampled, and could anything 
in the way of kainit be mixed with this 
to increase its value economically, and 
not injure the feet of farm animals? 
What would he the best method of improv¬ 
ing 10 acres of land while it is pasturing 
one horse and two cows? I have recently 
bought this small tract and have plowed 
and seeded to cow peas. It has been grow¬ 
ing com continuously for five years; plow¬ 
ing and cultivation have been very poor. 
Croome, Md. r. e. b. 
No. it is not wise to mix wood ashes with 
manure. The lime in the ashes will set 
free ammonia. Kainit is better to use on 
manure. It adds potash, and will preserve 
the ammonia instead of releasing it. You 
can hardly do better than begin by sowing 
cow peas on that land. We should use 300 
pounds acid phosphate and 100 pounds 
muriate of potash per acre with the peas. 
Plow them under and sow rye, and con¬ 
tinue until the soil is fit. 
Wood Ashes on Oats. 
We have about 10 barrels of wood ashes 
that have been out in the weather all 
Winter. Of course they are wet. We 
would like to know if these ashes would 
be good to put on oats to make them grow? 
Would tney have to be put on when it is 
raining? The oats are about 12 to 14 
inches in height and have the black smut. 
McKee City, N. Y. q. b. 
The ashes will supply lime, potash and 
some phosphoric acid. They do not con¬ 
tain any nitrogen, and from your state¬ 
ment we think the oats need nitrogen 
more than anything else. We should use 
75 pounds of nitrate of soda per acre in 
addition to the ashes. You need not wait 
until the rain comes. There is not enough 
of the 10 barrels of ashes to make much of 
a showing; a ton to the acre is not a largb 
dose. 
Tile Drainage.— I have put in almost 
three miles this year, and expect to com¬ 
plete nearly five miles. I suppose Illinois 
uses more tile than any other State. 
Round clay tile are used almost exclusive¬ 
ly so far as my observation in 18 years 
goes. The National Tile Works of Terre 
Haute, Ind., makes this kind of tile and 
run night and day when necessary, both 
Summer and Winter. Any clay tile that 
would admit much water through mem 
would be so soft as to he almost useless. 
Anyone who tries to make you believe 
that much of the efficiency of a tile de¬ 
pends upon water entering them, except 
through the joints, is, in my opinion, un¬ 
worthy of confidence. I take it that the 
reason why clay tile are used is because 
they are cheaper. At Belleville, Ill., a man 
is manufacturing concrete tile and there 
is no good reason why they will not work. 
But whether they will last so long is an¬ 
other question. Tile must be below freez¬ 
ing point, if a little soft to prevent deter¬ 
ioration. The principal thing is to have 
‘good tile, solid, and then have an experi¬ 
enced man put them in with an instrument, 
unless there is a great deal of fall. Tile 
should he at least four-inch to secure 
good results, as they are for wet weather 
and should remove water rapdly. My 80-rod 
strings are half 5’s and half 4’s. They 
act quickly, as all run directly to open 
ditch. ' c. o. d.b. 
Illinois. 
Killing Sassafras. —T. L. W. Deer, 
Ark., asks on page 169 what will kill sas¬ 
safras on land. I have had considerable trou¬ 
ble with sassafras sprouts, and it is diffi¬ 
cult to exterminate it by grubbing. At the 
Arkansas Agricultural Station experiments 
were tried with several chemicals, and it 
was found that sassafras was successfully 
destroyed by applying carbon bisulphide. 
The material was applied to the lower 
parts of the stem July 20. On sprouts 
three to five feet a teaspoonful to a table¬ 
spoonful was used, pouring it down the 
stem, beginning six inches above the 
ground. This portion of the stem turned 
brown in a few days. The top of the 
plant was brown and dead in a short time. 
At the end of the month several were dug 
up to examine the roots. The roots were 
dead to the end of the roots taken out, 
the heart-wood being discolored. As this 
material costs from 10 to 20 cents per pint 
it is more expensive than the grubbing hoe, 
but cheaper in the end for the scattering 
sprouts. See Bulletin No. 91, Arkansas Ex¬ 
periment Station. I have tried this meth¬ 
od on a small scale and find it effective. 
As the fumes are fatal if inhaled in quan¬ 
tities, care must he exercised in treating 
sprouts, and also keep it out of reach of 
fire, as it is very explosive when coming 
in contact with a lighted lamp or with 
fire. G. w. 
Auto With Air-cooled Engine.—I 
Would like the experience of some one who 
has used a high-wheel auto with air-cooled 
engine. Are they a success? M. L. B. 
North Baltimore, Ohio. 
185T 
1908 
Our Report 
is Coming 
Watch for it! 
Meanwhile read these 
Advance Reports 
from various State 
Stations—1908. 
EVERY SAMPLE TAKEN 
IN THE OPEN MARKET 
BY STATE AGENTS 
NAME OF STATE AND BRAND 
PER CENT. 
GUARAN¬ 
TEED BY US 
PER CENT 
FOUND 
BY STATE 
NEW YORK STATE 
E. FRANK COE’S Excelsior Potato Fertilizer 
Nitrogen . 
Q A1 
Available Phos. Acid. 
tf.4 ( 
ry f\n 
4,VL 
ft 1 Q 
Potash. 
o lo 
QUA 
o.UU 
Peruvian Market Gardeners Fertilizer 
Nitrogen. 
K HA 
* ftO 
Available Phos. Acid. 
O. <4 
O.O/C 
in oo 
Potash. 
o.UU 
JLV. /C/C 
1 1 f\A 
1U.UU 
11.U4 
CONNECTICUT 
Genuine Peruvian Guano, Chincha Grade 
Nitrogen. 
7.06 
6.50 
2.00 
1 ft* 
7.27 
Available Phos. Acid.... . 
Potash. 
7.85 
2.51 
o 9« 
E. FRANK COE’S High Grade Ammoniated Bone 
Superphosphate 
Nitrogen .. 
Available Phos. Acid . 
I.oO 
u nn 
10 56 
2.53 
2.30 
10.23 
5.18 
1 56 
9 85 
3.29 
3.58 
7.53 
8.92 
Potash . 
o 9* 
E. FRANK COE’S Celebrated Special Potato Fertilizer 
Nitrogen . 
/C. /CO 
1 A* 
Available Phos. Acid . 
1. OO 
ft nn 
Potash . 
a nn 
E, FRANK COE’S New Englander Corn and 
Potato Fertilizer 
Nitrogen . 
n ftn 
Available Phos. Acid . 
u.ou 
7.60 
Cl(\ 
Potash . 
E. FRANK COE’S Tobacco and Onion Fertilizer 
Nitrogen . 
3 nn 
Available Phos. Acid . 
a nn 
Potash . 
8.00 
VERMONT 
E. FRANK COE’S High Grade Ammoniated Bone 
Superphosphate 
Nitrogen. 
1.85 
9.00 
9. 9* 
o no 
Available Phos. Acid. 
6 vo 
Q HA 
Potash. 
V. <4 
O ft/4 
*.o4 
E. FRANK COE’S New Englander Corn Fertilizer 
Nitrogen ... . 
0.80 
7.50 
3 00 
1.40 
9 36 
3.05 
Available Phos. Acid. 
Potash. 
Cftm is a difference in fertilizers, flre YOU using tDe BEST? 
Tf not, use tDe best for your fall Seeding. 
OUR FERTILIZER LITERATURE, SENT FREE ON REQUEST, WILL GIVE 
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