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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 24, 1920 
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Various Notes 
The town clerk of a New England vil¬ 
lage recently sent the following with one 
dollar: 
This man is an undertaker and hap¬ 
pened to be in my office for a permit to 
remove a dead body to bis home town, 
saw my R. N.-Y., and made the remark 
that be guessed be would subscribe for it; 
I captured bis dollar right then and there, 
but search me if I know what information 
an undertaken can get out of a farm 
paper. In regard to my increasing your 
subscription list in this town, if you will 
send me a list of all papers coming to this 
postoffice I will see what I can do. as I 
come in contact with a great many people 
in different ways. 
was a good scboolhouse, but there was 
only one child left in the district. The 
families had not changed, and their chil¬ 
dren had grown up and moved away. The 
school officers promised to open the school 
and provide a teacher if six pupils could 
'be found, and thus there came a demand 
for the prolific hired man. That is all 
there was to it. There are many other 
country places where the man with a big 
family would help out the school. Would 
that there were more fanners to do their 
part in locating such families. 
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Why, an undertaker is a human being, 
and in spite of his profession has his mo¬ 
ments of joy and recreation. Our business 
is with humans, and the more human they 
are the better. One of our readers picked 
up a new subscription at a christening 
party—so we seem to be needed at both 
ends of life, as well as at the middle. 
As for overalls for women doing farm 
work, we have received a number of opin¬ 
ions—all favorable. Those who object to 
wearing such garments have not yet made 
their objection known. There is no ques¬ 
tion about the practical value and com¬ 
fort of such a working dress, but it will be 
a long time before overalls are generally 
adopted by women. Habit dies hard, and 
the prevailing women’s working dress is 
As readers know, we often print un¬ 
usual questions or statements of needs in 
order to call out discussion or to help 
some worthy cause. Following that plan 
we print the following. We have not 
had anything quite like it before. Tb>s 
would be a good ehailce for some enter¬ 
prising boy of good habits and good 
family: 
I want to enlist the help of your good 
magazine in securing a boy of about 10 
years of age, who would be attractive to 
a good home, with all school privileges, 
including college, proper monthly allow¬ 
ance for personal expenses and only 
enough work to keep him out of mischief. 
I want a boy who is country-bred, who 
knows how to handle cows, including 
milking, and has had some experience 
with chickens. 
We have a splendid high school and, 
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Ilouscclcaning and Carpet Beating Time 
about the most thoroughly fixed of all 
habits. 
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I reg pardon for forgetting to renew 
subscription. Through your periodical I 
am enabled to get country butter, nuts, 
chickens, maple syrup and other com¬ 
modities that brighten up city life, in¬ 
cluding information that is accurate and 
not manufactured by incompetent city 
scribes. Let it come right along. 
J. J. RICHARDS. 
The point about this is that. Mr. Rich¬ 
ards makes use of the Subscribers’ Ex¬ 
change department to obtain supplies. 
Any group of city people can obtain what 
they desire of any food or farm product 
by advertising for it. They can always 
find some one who has the goods to offer. 
We believe that The R. N.-Y. family can 
provide buyer or seller of any practical 
article which any reader offers or desires. 
Now and then a city man asks why we 
do not bring producer and consumer to¬ 
gether. We do—but here is another case 
where wc have got to do it ourselves. 
«: 
Some weeks ago a very unusual adver¬ 
tisement for a hired man appeared in the 
Subscribers’ Exchange department. The 
advertiser stated that one requirement 
was that the man should have five chil¬ 
dren of graded school age! This was re¬ 
markable, since practically all advertisers 
say “no children wanted”; yet here was 
an actual call for five! A number of our 
people wanted to know what had hap¬ 
pened, or what the “catch” in this offer 
was. There is no “catch” about it. In 
the district where this advertiser lived 
as you know, a fine college. I have a 
place of eight acres. I do not want to 
adopt the boy. but will gladly assume 
guardianship if desirable. I want a boy 
of good character, and preferably an or¬ 
phan, and one who will be likely to re¬ 
main with me through his college course 
if everything works out satisfactory. 
J. R. B. 
Roaming Hens 
I was very glad to see the article on 
“Poultry Damage in Hayfield” in The R. 
N.-Y. of October 11 last on page 1493. I 
have been having the same trouble. I 
have a neighbor who has no crops at all, 
not even a garden, but a few of my chick¬ 
ens have run into her meadow after grass- 
hoppers since haying. She has made a 
great many threats and done a great deal 
of blowing, and leaves her barn doors 
open to coax them into her barn; then she 
kills them. I have had no way to pen 
them up, so had to let them run. J. 
She is probably within her legal rights 
if she does not want the chickens on her 
premises. These hens are trespassers, 
the same as horses or cows would be. P 
there are uo crops the liens do no dam¬ 
age, and it might be considered a neigh¬ 
borly act to let them run at large. *he 
does not regard it so, and is privileged to 
act as she does. She can entice the hens 
into the barn and kill them if she is will¬ 
ing to take the consequences. This will 
mean paying the value of the hens thus 
destroyed. If you collect these damages 
she can sue you for alleged damage to her 
property. The only satisfaction in thesa 
hen cases is to be obtained by keeping the 
hens enclosed. A roaming hen is a nui¬ 
sance. 
