People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1894 — FARMER’S ARCADIA. [ARTICLE]

FARMER’S ARCADIA.

Q Where Fences Are Needless and Mowing Fields Extend to the Turnpike. You can’t see cattle, sheep or hogi running at large in any of the public highways of the Empire state nowadays, says the New York Sun. A few years ago the legislature passed a law prohibiting the pasturing of stock in the public highways of the state, and the people everywhere have liked the law and lived up to it. As a result the residents of many of the villages In the great commonwealth have removed their dooryard fences, and the long stretches of park-like front yards are the most noticeable feature to visitor* from other states. The property owners don’t need to be on the watch for stray cattle, and their gardens are never overrun by vagrant cows and hogs. Everybody is pleased with the law, and therefore no one breaks it. In the agricultural districts of the state a great many farmers have torn down their road fences where they don’t need to pasture stock in field adjoining the highways. They till the ground right out to the wagon tracks and uproot the weeds and grassea where the fences stood. Grass grow* as thriftily along the roadsides opposite the meadows and pastures as if. does in the fields, and the farmers util ize it by mowing it for hay. The road side hay crop of the Empire state this year will amount to tens of thousand* of tons.

—Painted fire needs no fuel—a deai and formal profession is easily kepi up.—T. Manton.