The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-02
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Damages by Neighbors' Fowls.


other creatures into grounds where they
are destructive and not desirable. OF
course people who have lived side by
side by side together, are much in the
condition of married people who have to
give and take, as the saying is, if they
expect to get along comfortably. Much
annoyance is often endured in this way,
and very often to the extent of one party
feeling that he has to do all the taking,
while the giving all comes from the
other side.
In all annoyances of this kind it re-
quires good deal of cool command of
ones self to get along well, and much
may be done by the aggrieved party
doing something himself to keep out in
truders, when that something does not
cost too much time and labor to do. At
tempts at coercion, or anything atmay
create bad feelings are not wise as o
rule, and not till all kinder methods fail.
1t is well, however, for all to understand
what is the right of parties in these
cases as the law understands it.
There is a general impression that the
keeper of drove of fowls or flock of
pigeons has no responsibility in regard
to keeping these annoyances from his
neighbors. If he has a good four-railed
fence, such as would keep horse or
COW from breaking through, he thinks
in many cases that he is relieved from
all other care as to what other things
may go and he contends that it is the
neighbor who is to keep out the visitors
If their presence be undesirable to him.
But this is not so. We have now be-
fore us the report of a case sent to court
in order to test this very thing. One
neighbor had taste for flowers and
prided himself considerably on his gar
den. The other neighbor loved fowls,
and kept numerous flock of them. The
fowls loved flowers also, and made fire.
Quent visits to the neighbors beds. The
fowl owner was repeatedly appealed to /;
but he always fell back on what he con-
sidered his rights-which were, he
thought, that the neighbor who objected
to the chickens should put up a fence
sufficient to keep the. fowls out But
the decision was adverse to any sup
posed right, and he had to pay good
sum for flowers destroyed, time charged
in driving chickens out, and in watch
ing the beds, and large number of
similar items, besides the costs of the
whole suit. This was a civil suit for
damages only; but the case could be
made to assume a still more serious as
pect in charge of keeping nuisance,
and IN various ways man might come
to grief who indulged the pastime of
permitting his feathered flocks to Craze
on another's pasture.
Exposing Manure.
Some of your correspondents advocate
he fall spreading of manure for good
crops the following year. My experience
does not convince me of the value of
this practice. Late in the autumn of
1868 L spread fourteen ox-loads of barn
manure on about one-half an acre of sod
ground, intending to plow it in before
the ground froze; but the sudden freez-
ing OF the ground prevented me, and it
laid spread on the surface all winter. l
have heard it said by some writer's that
barn manure does not evaporate ammonia
IN cold as in warm weather; but in De-
cembe1, as I passed near this piece OF
land, 1 noticed very strong scent of
barn manure on the air; and if there is
any virtue i'll ammonia in manure, large
portion of it was lost in the atmosphere
that winter, as the result proved the
following year. The next spring /
covered the adjoining piece of land, of
about two acres, which was old ground.
and which bore a crop of potatoes the
year before, with about the same quantity
of green manure from the barn cellar,
the whole being plowed in in the spring
both old and new ground, and planted
to corn-that on the old ground with
green manure being good, and that OF
the fall spreading on the sod ground
being exceedingly poor. This 1 have
ever since considered fair test, and ]
have never considered it good husbandry
to expose barn manure containing vola
tile ammonia to the action of the atmos
phere any more than to sun and rain,
the plausible reasoning of agricultural
writers to the contrary Notwithstanding
-Neo0 England Farmer.
Domestic Recipes.
To DRY CoRN.-Place the corn in 6
stove oven without removing the husk
Let it heat through, then strip and GU
from the cob and dry in the sun o.
i'll the stove oven, as is most con
venient. This is said to make a goot
article ofits kind.
TOMATO PE.-Take fully ripe toma
toes, scald and peel the skin off, then Gu
in slices and lay in shallow dish, sprin
kle with sugar, add little butter, cove
with a crust, and bake till the crust il
done. Then turn the crust on plate
crust downward, and spread over the
tomatoes the white of an egg beate1
with sugar. Set in the oven till the egg
stitfens. This is more wholesome thai
lemon pie and almost as good.
Conn CAKEs.-Grate half dozen ear
OF green corn, stir in a cup of milk
add flour with which yeast powder, il
the proportion of two teaspoonfuls t.
the quart, has been sifted, until th,
whole is a thick batter. Add two O.
three eggs well beaten and pinch O
salt. Fry as batter cakes, or bake il
gem pans in quick oven. A pleasan
breakfast dish.
Cedar for Hen Lice.
A breeder of poultry writes Ever,
spring l procure a quantity of cedal
boughs, and scatter them plentifully il
and around the hen house. This is al
that is necessary, as the odor of tn,
cedar keeps away lice. This remedy il
cheap, simple, and effective, and is wei
worth trying by all who have hens tt
care for.
There are now formed in Mississippi
665 subordinate oranges; in Louisiana
305; in Alabama, 750; in Arkansas, $40
in Texas, 795, and in Tennessee, LOO