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March 19, 
THE CRY OF THE POULTRY NOVICE 
What month is host for hatching It. I. 
Iteds and White Wyandottes for Winter 
layers? Pity the sorrows of a novice who 
has read a lot of poultry books, takes a 
well-known poultry magazine, and reads 
the poultry pointers in four farm papers! 
He finds so many conflicting statements 
staring him in the face on the above, as 
well as every other conceivable topic relat¬ 
ing to poultry, that he has almost “lost bis 
bearings!” When poultry experts disagree, 
who shall decide? As .Josh Billings said, 
“It’s better not to know so much, than to 
ferred the property. This dam and bridge 
are on my neighbor's property. He refuses 
to place the bridge in condition and also 
refuses to allow me the right of way across. 
What would you advise me to do to secure 
my rights? As it is now my south fields 
are of no use to me as there is no other¬ 
way to get to them. t. p. 
New York. 
You have a right of way over his land 
and bridge. The burden of repairing these 
falls to you and you can make reasonable 
repairs at any time. There is no legal 
obligation on your neighbor to keep up a 
road and bridge for you but he must permit 
you free use of the way for passage and 
repairs, otherwise bo subject to damages. 
34 N. Y. Suppl. 840. 
know so many things that ain't so!” 
West Carrollton, O. F. s. 
I sympathize with “F. S.” very much, 
and don't wonder that a novice is puzzled 
to know what to believe. Scarcely a week 
goes by but some one comes up with a 
statement of profits beating all former rec¬ 
ords, said profits being gained by violating 
all the usually accepted rules and regula¬ 
tions of poultry keeping. Undoubtedly some 
people can do things successfully, that 
would cause certain failure to others, if 
they tried to do the same. Not every man 
can make .$1,500 in a year from 00 hens 
on the rear end of a city lot 40 feet square, 
as Sir. Philo claims to have done. Not 
even if every motion he made was an ex¬ 
act duplicate of Mr. Philo’s. And here 
come the Comings—father and son—who 
give the figures to show a profit which 
they claim to have made on 1,953 pullets 
in 10 months, $12,520.81, a profit of $6.35 
per hen. And they overcrowd the chicks 
in the brooders, and overcrowd the pullets 
in the colony houses, and overcrowded the 
hens in the laying houses; 175 chicks to 
each hover, 350 chicks later in each nur¬ 
sery pen (5%xl2 feet), 400 pullets in each 
colony house (6x10 feet. 6 2-3 pullets to 
each square foot), and at last 1,500 laying 
pullets in a house 160x16 feet, giving 1 7-10 
feet floor space per hen. And these houses 
have no yards; the hens are kept in these 
houses 10 months without going outdoors. 
The houses are built five feet above the 
ground, and there are runways by which 
access to the earth under the houses is 
provided. Talk about “intensive” poultry 
culture; this is a little the most “inten¬ 
sive” of any I heard of. But the profit is 
the most extensive; $6.35 per hen lays away 
over the experience of most of us. * Editor 
A. F. Hunter, of the Advocate, shows a 
profit of $3.49% per hen from 20 White 
Plymouth Rocks from eggs alone, at mar¬ 
ket prices 185 eggs per hen in a year. 
And this year he has 25 White Wyandottes. 
which are beating the record of the White 
Rocks. No wonder the novice docs not 
know what to believe, or what to do. Eveu 
the old experienced hen men are made to 
“sit up and take notice.” But 1 have run 
clear away from F. S.'s question. 1 should 
say the best month to hatch out R. I. Reds 
or Wyandottes for Winter layers is March. 
Then, if they have been grown under favor¬ 
able conditions and had no setbacks, they 
ought to be nearly all laying in October and 
lay steadily all Winter. First of last 
March I bought 200 It. I. Red day-old 
chicks, reserved 48 pullets, sold the rostj 
these have been laying 16 to 24 eggs a day 
ever since October. My Wyandottes were 
hatched a month later, and only a few laid 
before November, but since they got to 
going have beaten the Reds, some breeding 
pens of 12 giving 10 eggs in a day, and 
seldom less than six. geo. a. cosguove. 
LEGAL MATTERS. 
Husband’s Right in Estate. 
My wife died leaving small farm—she 
did not make a will, and of course I have 
the use of the farm. What are my rights in 
regard to the timber? Some of her relatives 
claim that my right is very limited. How 
much have 1 a right to cut? n. j. 
New York. 
l'ou are entitled to the income of the 
farm but you are not at liberty to injure 
the place so as to affect the inheritance. 
You may cut a reasonable amount of wood 
for stove use, and you may clean up land 
for cultivation but you cannot sell the tim¬ 
ber. If your cutting will tend to improve 
the place you are protected, otherwise you 
will be liable to the heirs for waste. 
Wife’s Interest in Estate. 
What will the widow get, if anything, 
where a man died without a will here in 
Pennsylvania, having borrowed money and 
given notes and a judgment or mortgage to 
the value of the real and personal property. 
Pennsylvania. it. d. 
The widow is entitled to an exemption of 
$300 above the debts of the husband except 
in the case of a purchase money mortgage 
which is not affected by the wife’s exemp¬ 
tion. Next all debts are to be paid and out 
of the balance the widow will receive one- 
lliird of the personalty absolutely and a 
life interest in one-tliird of the real prop¬ 
erty. If the widow joined in the making of 
the mortgage that will reduce her interest 
to the extent of the mortgage. 
Dishonest Postal Clerk. 
Do the postal authorities require their 
clerks, mail carriers and others connected 
with the Department, to pay their honest 
debts or may they be liable to suspension? 
New York. H. J. 
The United States Government -declines 
to act as a collection agency but will not 
keep a man whose personal conduct is con¬ 
spicuously base or objectionable. It is a 
serious offence for a carrier to contract 
debts on his route. If a complaint is made 
to the superintendent of such indebtedness, 
the employee is summoned to explain and 
if it appears that he neglects to pay his 
bills tlie employee may be degraded, sus¬ 
pended or dropped. We advise you to write 
the employee first because he will bestir 
himself rather than face charges. 
Right of Way Across Farm. 
I bought a farm last Spring and the deed 
calls for the right of way over and across 
the dam to the south fields. This agreement 
is also in my neighbor's deed, and has been 
handled down by others who have trans- 
Fence Laws. 
You say a man must fence his cattle in, 
but is not obliged to fence his neighbors 
out. Do 1 understand from that that if my 
neighbor keeps cattle and I do not, that he 
cannot compel me to keep my part of the 
partition fence in such repair as would turn 
his stock from my field, or that if he keeps 
stock he must take care of them and not 
make me build a fence for his use only? 
Pennsylvania. a. c. 
The statutes provide that in case of im¬ 
proved property either abutting owner may 
demand the erection and maintenance of a 
proper division fence, the expense of which 
is to be borne equally. In the event of a 
disagreement the fence viewers (town audi¬ 
tors) are authorized to inspect the line, 
consult the survey, take testimony and re¬ 
port an equitable adjustment. This report 
is filed and becomes a lien. Each owner is 
required to fence in his own cattle and need 
not fence out his neighbor's cattle. 38 1’. 
L. J. 53. 
Damage by Telephone Company. 
About four years ago I wanted a tele¬ 
phone put in and furnished poles to erect 
the line which had to pass my father’s farm 
to get to mine by the side of the highway. 
Father did not give permission nor did they 
ask any to erect the lines. Nothing was 
even said ; they just went along and did it. 
For the last year or two#and just recently 
they have been along and cut some fine 
chestnut and maple and oak sprouts from 
two inches to four in diameter, which 
father had left to grow by the roadside for 
timber. Under these circumstances can my 
father get damage. What can I do? 
Connecticut. a'. L. 
It may be that the telephone company 
has lawful permission to use the highway 
under certain conditions, as telephone and 
telegraph companies enjoy extensive rights 
to th<‘ road, but no person or company can 
cut the limbs or injure the trees of another 
without incurring liability. If they do not 
settle for the trespass you can recover in 
a suit, as the law favors the protection of 
trees on the roadway. 
Division of Estate. 
A left a will, giving all his property, to 
his wife, making her executrix, and naming 
three of the heirs as her advisers, who 
should do everything to the best interest of 
the estate. Further on he gives his wife 
power to sell at her pleasure and if any 
residue remain after her death divides it 
amongst his children, naming the above ad¬ 
visers as executors. On A’s death his wife 
put will on probate but took no papers 
through court as executrix. She soon sold 
all her real and nearly all personal property 
to one of the heirs, who was one of the 
named advisers and executors. In this sale 
only loose papers and purchasing notes were 
given. A’s wife died. What recourse have 
the other heirs? Was A’s wife executrix? 
Are the other three executors? F. t. 
Pennsylvania. 
It appears that the wife has proceeded 
carelessly but legally, as she has the power 
of sale and does not have to consider the 
claims of the other heirs nor follow the 
counsel of her associates. The parties buy¬ 
ing from her will insist that she qualifies 
as exectrix in order to keep the title clear. 
Many parties new to such business make 
rash errors or take suggestions from incom¬ 
petent advisers. 
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