Year: 1879

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has also deciued that kettIes set in brick
furnaces for cooking food, as we'll as
kettles set in furnaces in cellar, or
other part of the house for washing,
rendering lard, ETC., are conveyed by
the deed and cannot be removed. A
windmill for pumping water for stock
either on barn or tower, and farm bell
on house or barn for calling hands to
their meals, are part of the farm. And
the same State has also decided that in
case a farmer has statuary or vases in
his yard or lawn, sitting on the ground
by their own weight, 60 by deed to the
purchaser. A man selling a farm has
no right after the deed is made, to re-
move any rose bushes, shrUbbery or
other ornamental or useful trees or
plants which are set in the ground.
Forest trees blown or cut down preVi-
Gus to sale belong to the farm, but if
cut in frewood and piled it becomes
personal property, and can be removed.


All furniture in the house, even if it
is fastened TO the wall to steady or to
hang it up, is generally conceded, does
not belong to the real estate. There
have been frequent conflicts as TO Ii
brary cases, as well as well buckets, but
these are determined more by the de-
gree of permanence with which they
are attached to the premises. There
are thousands of other questions which
have been contested in the courts as to
what man buys with farm, but the
foregoing includes the most common
articles which the farmer needs to
know.-Iot0G State Register.


-Dr. Ii. A. Hagen, of Cambridge,
Mass, in an interesting cOmmunica-
ton to the Boston Society. of Natural
History on 1.-The Carpet Beetle and
other House and Museum Pests" gave
some e'practical hints for destroying the
new carpet bug, which has spread so
rapidly in various localities during the
past few years. Acting on the theory
that prevention is better than cure, l
think" says the doctor, 1.-THE best way
to be followed would be first to prevent
the entrance of the insect. Therefore
every new carpet and rug should be
considered as dangerous and treated as
the old ones; that is, exposed in the
open air, in sunshine if possible, as
sunlight the larvae cannot stand, and
strongly beaten before laid up in the
rooms. The common custom, to order
new carpets in the stores and lay them
directly in the rooms is apparently the
most dangerous course to be pursued.
Further, as it is observed that the
beetles by preference follow the cracks
in the floor, all should be made tight,
or at least filled with tallow. The tai
low is very dangerous substance for
the larvae and eagerly avoided by them
as the fat easily attaches to the spir-
acles with killing effect. Therefore
the most common tallow candle, being
softer, is better than the purified. For
the same purpose l should recommend
tallowed paper to be put along the
walls, only foot or two under the car
pets, as just the places near the walls
are their most chosen abode. Of
course careful and more frequent in
spectiOn of the carpets will be neoessa-
ry if the number of larvae seems to be
in any way alarming. l think it will
be impossible to get rid of them entire
ly, but it will be certaiuly possible to
keep them within limits, so that they
will be not more dangerous than any
other house pest.