1914. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1365 
Keeping Strained Honey. 
1 IIAVE about GO pounds of extracted 
honey which I got in a large tin can. 
AVill it be all right and will this 
honey keep if put in glass jars with 
tight lids? If not how should it be kept 
until the family can use it? L. K. B. 
Honey will keep in any kind of a con¬ 
tainer, whether tin or glass. It will not 
mold, nor will it sour unless it is kept 
in open vessels exposed to a cold wet at¬ 
mosphere, under which conditions it will 
absorb enough moisture from the air 
to become th'in and watery and become 
sour in time. Glass jars are all right 
and considerable honey is sold in them, 
the only objection to their use being that 
it is usually difficult to keep the honey 
from oozing out from under the lid. 
E. B. B. 
“Teachers” For Farm Women. 
W HERE are all the farm women, to 
sit quietly by and hear so much 
said and read, so much that has been 
written about farm women? Only the 
other day I read in some paper what 
some woman thought was most needed 
by us, and would you believe it, she 
thought we should have teacher’s sent 
out by the Government to teach us how 
to cook! I think she spoke of bread as 
one of the things we particularly needed 
instruction in, it was rather amusing to 
me, and I would like to tell you why. 
The early part of my life was spent in 
a large village ; later I was, for many years, 
a teacher in the rural schools. During 
that time I was entertained by nearly 
all the families connected with the 
schools in the various districts where I 
taught, and for the last eight years I 
have been a farmer’s wife. I am much 
interested in Grange work and have had 
an opportunity to visit a good many 
Granges, thus making a large number of 
friends among farm women, besides hav¬ 
ing a chance to know about their ways 
of living. In all the farm homes where 
I have been entertained or where I board¬ 
ed we had good bread and it wasn’t 
baker’s either, and the women took pride 
in their cooking and in serving good whole¬ 
some meals, and in keeping their houses 
clean and orderly. How is it that so 
many premiums are awarded to farm 
women at fairs and places where both 
farm and city women compete if we are 
such poor cooks? And why do our 
city friends like to run out oh Sunday 
“to get a good dinner?” I have even had 
some of mine ask me to bake various 
things for them when they were pre¬ 
paring to entertain, and wanted every¬ 
thing “to be just right.” And yet we 
need teachers! If you want to eat the 
very best dinner ever, just go to a West¬ 
ern New York Grange dinner. 
A. fabmeb’s wife. 
Take the Wife's Advice. 
J ANUARY 1st I put a man on my 10- 
acre farm, under salary, supplying 
lumber, 720-egg incubator, brooder, and 
2,500 eggs. The proposition was that lie 
should get up poultry houses and hatch 
flock which we estimated would number 
at least 1,000 pullets laying in October. 
The result has been 500 pullets and 200 
broilers, one house 40x10. one cellar and 
brooder house over cellar 14x12, four 
colony houses 12x10 and general clear up 
of place, which was neglected; no work 
on land. It is now clear that expenses 
will not be covered out of 500 hens, and 
my man states that I must find $1,000 
for more buildings and running expenses 
for one year, to go in bigger, say 2.000 
birds in Fall of 1915. I am a city man, 
my wife most capable, which I am not; 
ready markets for all produce. Shall I 
keep the man with the extra risk—or 
shall we move on the farm and try our 
own luck with the 500, gradually feeling 
our way to work? I have set out 200 
apple trees this season, and am taking 
your green crop manuring formulas, hav¬ 
ing plowed under rye in April—and sow¬ 
ing vetch, etc., among corn in August. 
Am I safe in expecting 500 hens to pro¬ 
duce as follows at least in 12 months: 
50.000 eggs. 4,166 dozen at average 20 
cents, $1249 gross? G. b. 
New England. 
Probably the best advice that I can 
give you is to take the advice of your 
wife in this matter. She knows you and 
your circumstances as I do not, and in the 
poultry business and on the farm the ad¬ 
vice and help of a capable wife is worth 
far more than that any stranger can give. 
If it is your purpose to make a livelihood 
from poultry, you will work at a great 
disadvantage if you attempt to do it at 
a distance and with hired help. I will 
not say that it is impossible, but it is cer¬ 
tainly highly improbable that you will be 
able to accomplish it. You have an im¬ 
mense deal to learn, and the only way to 
learn it is by actively engaging in the 
business. You should not have expected 
to produce 1,000 October layers from 
2,500 eggs; getting 500 good pullets from 
that number of eggs is doing well. This 
is a good start, and under all ordinary 
circumstances it would be far better to 
make these pay with the equipment that 
you now have before investing another 
$1,000. No, you are not safe in expecting 
500 hens to lay 100 eggs each during the 
year; they ought to do it, but dear, dear, 
how many excuses they can find for neg¬ 
lecting their work! If you are a city man 
without experience with farm and poul¬ 
try, you will work at considerable disad¬ 
vantage in many respects but this disad¬ 
vantage will be at least partly counter¬ 
balanced by your willingness to learn 
and your eagerness to take advantage of 
what others can teach you ; at the same 
time my advice to city men in good posi¬ 
tions is to go very slowly at burning the 
bridges behind them as they embark in 
the poultry business for a livelihood. 
M. B. D. 
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Disposing of Property by Will. 
I AM going to make a will soon and 
give all I possess to my only brother 
absolutely. If my brother dies before 
I do, can I direct all to be given to my 
deceased sister’s and brother's children, 
share and share alike, which I would like 
to do if it would be lawful according 
to the law of New York State? H. D. 
New York. 
You may by will legally give all of 
your property to your brother, with the 
reservation that in the event that he 
should die before you, then all your 
property should go to the children of your 
deceased sister and brother. 
Requirements of Sanitary Code. 
I AM writing to see if there is any way 
to secure justice regarding some of the 
provisions of the new sanitary code 
which goes into effect Nov. 16, in this 
State. According to this “code” it was 
intended to require a license of every 
one, everywhere, who sells milk at re¬ 
tail. Also they must have their dairies 
scored and the grade of milk stamped on 
the bottle cap. To these requirements 
no. one could justly object but it now de¬ 
velops that only milk “peddlers” are 
meant while the man with a fexv cows 
can sell “any old thing” and go free. 
This is a manifest injustice. It does not 
seem right that I be compelled to secure 
a license while several people in town 
who keep one to three cows may sell 
milk without restrictions. What would 
be the sense of a law allowing anyone to 
practise medicine without a license so 
long as he had only a few patients while 
the skilled physician was required to 
procure this permission? F. H. T. 
New York. 
Your position is well taken and your 
argument well put if your premises are 
correct. Chapter III of the State San¬ 
itary Code respecting milk and cream 
provides in part that "No corporation, 
association, firm or individual shall sell 
or offer for sale at retail milk or cream 
in any city or village without a permit 
from the health officer thereof, etc." This 
provision does not seem to limit its scope 
to peddlers merely, but to everyone who 
sells at retail. And if your local health 
officer is going to apply it to peddlers 
only you should lay the whole matter be¬ 
fore the State Health Department. The 
new regulations going into effect Novem¬ 
ber 16, 1914, materially change the pres¬ 
ent law and among other things provide 
for the inspection of every farm and 
dairy where milk and cream is produced 
for sale. 
Right to Property. 
I F a widow had four children by the 
first husband, four by the second hus¬ 
band and if the mother should die, 
could the first four children claim their 
mother’s third in the property if the sec¬ 
ond husband was living? This property 
was accumulated by her second husband? 
If so, how could it be prevented? 
New Jersey. s. j. s. 
While the second husband lives, even 
though his wife die, there would be no 
distribution of his estate and. of course, 
the first children could get nothing. The 
second husband would have to die first 
to give the wife her dower. This dower 
of one-third is only for the wife’s life, 
and at her death would go back to the 
husband’s heirs. The mother can al¬ 
ways disinherit her children by will and 
leave her property as she chooses, al¬ 
though in New Jersey she cannot defeat 
her husband’s courtesy. 
Verbal Contract; Rental of Farm. 
I OWN a farm about 10 miles out of 
the city which I rent, or let, out on 
shares. Last year I let the farm out 
on verbal contract, each of us to buy one- 
half of the grain and phosphate used, and 
each to share equally in what the farm 
produced. My man seems somewhat un¬ 
reasonable. and says the verbal contract 
is no good. He also says he can hold 
one-half of the manure made on the farm 
and sell it. Will you state if a verbal 
contract is legal and for how long, and 
also state if the law in New York State 
will allow a man taking a farm to work 
on shares to sell the manure. If the ten¬ 
ant breaks the verbal contract can he be 
put off of the farm and how? When he 
took the farm it was mentioned he should 
have one-half the milk, one-half the hogs, 
one-half the grain raised, one-half the 
eggs and chickens and one-half the fruit. 
New York. j. w. w. 
A verbal contract which, by its terms, 
is not to be performed within a year 
from its making, is void and cannot be 
enforced. On the other hand an oral 
lease of real property for a period not 
longer than one year is good, and it is 
a question under which of these rules 
your agreement comes. In any event 
your man is as badly off as yourself if 
there is no contract. He is then a tres¬ 
passer after you notify him to leave and 
give him a reasonable time to get off. 
Thereafter he may be put off by dis¬ 
possess proceedings. The law recognizes 
that good farming requires that manure 
made on the farm be left there, and 
where there is no agreement otherwise 
the tenant may not take away any of the 
manure. There is so much uncertainty 
on both sides that it would seem under 
all the circumstances to be a good case 
to try to come to some amicable arrange¬ 
ment with your man. It will save you 
both much trouble. m. d. 
Trespass. 
A GROSSES B’s lot; B does not for¬ 
bid A going and has no signs posted. 
Gan B get a ease of trespass against 
A? 2. A. goes on B’s lot and swamp on 
a road. B says it is all right at the 
time. Gan B bring suit against A and 
collect damages? a. h. d. 
Maine. 
1. In a technical sense this is a trespass 
and B could sue and get damages—prob¬ 
ably amounting to no more than six 
cents. If A crossed the field for a long 
time and I? knew of it and made no ob¬ 
jection it would amount to a permission 
and B could not sue A until he had re¬ 
voked this tacit permission. 2. B having 
said it was all right at the time and hav¬ 
ing given his permission, cannot now 
sue A for trespass unless A exceeded the 
permit and did damage. 
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