10—Lancaster Fanning, Friday, May 3, 1957
It’s The Law.
“It's the Law” with simple an
swers is offered by LANCASTER
FARMING in cooperation wit!
the Pennsylvania Bar Associa
tion. General interest questions
areu welcomed, and will be an
swered as soon as possible. Let
ters must be signed. Answer
will not be' published on a speci
fied, requested day.. Questions
cannot be answered by mail, and
LANCASTER FARMING will
reject any inquiry which is not
of general public interest. Ad
dress all inquiries to “It's the
Law,”. LANCASTER FARMING
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tials will be used to protect the
identity of the questions).
• • •
Q. A person buys a home appli
ance on time and pays the bank in
monthly installments. He falls
behind in his payments and the
bank threatens legal action. Can
the bank do more than repossess
the appliance? A W. K.
A. The legal remedies available
to the-bank would depend strictly
on terms of the agreement made
between the bank, as the lender
and the purchaser of the appli
ance, as the borrower. Generally,
agreements of this type provide
not only that the bank, or -other
lending agency, may repossess,
the appliance after default, but
that it may also enter judgment
against the purchaser for any un
paid balance, interest and/or the
costs of repossession and enforce
ment of the judgment. The most
serious problem arises where the
appliance is allegedly defective,
and the purchaser attempts to
avoid payment on this ground
without giving the seller propei
and timely notice of the alleged
defect. In these circumstances, it
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Q If I have a piece of real
estate to sell and have a,buyer,
is .there a cheaper way of con-
the title than going
through the hands of a real estate
agent’ GJH.
A. A real estate agent is not
a necessary party to the convey
ance of real property His serv
ices are primarily needed to pro
cure a buyer, often this a very
worthwhile and valuable service,
and thereafter he generally' as
sists with the mechanics of trans
ferring the property arrang
ing for the settlement, assisting
with financing and the like.
However, since you already
have a buyer, your only problems
are, preparing a sales agreement
and/or a deed, and arranging a
satisfactory settlement and trans
fer of the property An attorney
would be best qualified to ren
der the assistance you need. In
fact, even where a sale is pro
cured by a real estate agent, he
usually places these matters in
the hands of an attorney for
completion.
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Q I, have been parted from
my wife for over nine months,
and during our estrangement she
became pregnant Will I have to
support the baby or will I have
to support under the law’
A. Public policy presumes a
child born to a married woman
« A husband is re
quired under our law to support
all children born of his wife, un
less he can establish non-access
by independent evidence. This
means that he must prove that
he was absent from the jurisdic
tion for a sufficient continuous
length of time to positively ex
clude the possibility of his pa
ternity. This evidence must not
be adduced primarily from third
persons or records, since a moth
er is not permitted to testify as
to non-access and the putative
father’s testimony would have
to be* corroborated to be effec
tive.
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New Shade Trees
Being Developed
By Arboretum
A number of new and highly
desirable shade and ornamental
trees for home and street plant
ing are now being developed m
nurseries and botanical gardens
throughout the country* says Dr
Henry T Skinner, director of the
U S. Department of Agriculture’s
National Arboretum in Washing
ton, D C
Many of the excellent shade
and ornamental trees now on the
market are limited in use because
of their special soil and climate
demands For example, trees such
as the honeylocust and English
hawthorn do well through a broad
.section of the Midwest but do not
thrive in some sections of the
East Flowering dogwood, a popu
lar small ornamental, flourishes
in acid soil but will not grow un
der alkaline conditions or in
heavily compacted clays.„
'■New controlled breeding pro
grams promise to produce more
adaptable trees for the future.
One of the first products of such
a planned tree-breeding program
at the National Arboretum is a
narrow, pyramidal Hybrid of red
and silver maple, which scientists
hope -will carry the good quali
ties of both
Other sources of new trees in
clude imports from foreign coun
tries, selections from botanical
collections m this country,
chance seedlings, and chance
sports which sometimes develop
on a single branch of an otherwise
normal tree. New tree selections
now being propagated from these
sources include lower growing
maples, columnar cherry, globe
linden, golden sycamore, and eu
coynmia (a hardy rubber tree).
Short supply of propagating
material slows down the increase
of these new tree selections. It
will be several years before any
of them are available.
In many cases, a new selection is
often represented by a single
tree, so that in any one year
there are only a few cuttings or
grafting scions available. Some
trees will not reproduce true to
form from seed. Others produce
seed which does not germinate
Even when seed propagation
works, it takes at least four or
five years to produce a salable
tree.
Now Is Time
W.W.
To Clip Hoofs
Of Heifers
Every farmer is busy with
many spring jobs, and dairymen
are no axception, says Assistant
Counity Agent Victor Plastow.
Because heifers are not an ac
tual source of monthly income,
they are often the first to be ne
glected.
One of the most neglected jobs
is that of hoof care. During the
winter heifers’ feet grow much
faster than they are worn off.
Generally heifers are stabled on
manure packs until they are
turned out on pasture, and Plas
tow warns that it can be harm
ful if they are turned on pasture,,
without having this condition
corrected.
Cattle with long hoofs carry
most of their weight hack on
their heels. This puts added
strain on ithe hock and pastern
joints By properly trimming
these long hoofs before the add
ed activity of the pasture season,
this strain on the feet and legs
can be lessoned. This will allow
the animal to move about more
freely and be more comfortable
on pasture.
In trimming these hoofs, Plas
tow suggests first trimming back
the long points of the hoof even
ly. Then shape the foot by using
hoof nippers, a sharp knife, or
wood chisel and mallet. Smooth
off the underside of the foot so
the animal is standing flat on
her foot and carrying her weight
well on her toes This may be
done by picking up the foot
while working on the sole, or by
throwing the animal and work
ing on the sole of the foot while
she is lying down. By either
method, ia sharp knife or wood
chisel or a small electric sander
may be used to level the sole of
the foot.
Neppco Expects
High Egg Prices
In Fall, Winter
TRENTON, N J. Consumers
can look forward to paying sharp
ly higher prices for eggs this fall
and winter unless there is a re
versal of current production plans
by Northeastern poultrymen.
Harassed by low prices during
the past three months, poultry
growers have slashed fall egg
flock plans by close to 30 per
cent, according to Harold P. Kla
hold, president of the Northeast
ern Poultry Producers Council.
In a report last week to pro
ducer-members in 14 states, Kla
hold warned that the number of
baby chicks sold so far this spring
is dangerously low. These are the.
chicks that six months from now
will be producing the bulk of the
eggs that reach city markets.^
“We know from hard experi
ence,” Klahold declared, “that un
ually high egg prices frequently
work to the detriment of the poul
try farmer First of all, they tend
to discourage egg consumption;
secondly, they often spur farmers
to over-produce in the year fol
lowing.
“This ‘boom and bust’ cycle is
an occurrence that benefits nei
ther farmer nor consumer.”
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Earlier this year, poultry indus
try officials suggested that grow
ers trim their chick buying plans
about per cent in order to
bring egg supplies and demand
closer in balance. reports
from the U S. Department of Agri
culture indicate that the cuts have
gone far deeper than that.
> In January and February, sales
of egg type chicks averaged about
26 per cent under the same two
months of last year. The number
of eggs* in incubators on March 1
was down a like amount from
1956
“Although April and May are
still months of heavy chick buy
ing, there will have to be a sharp
switch in present trends if we
are to have adequate supplies of
eggs this fall and winter,” Kla
hold reported.
The number of hens currently
on farms is only slightly lower
than it was last year at this time,
a condition which accounts for
the current egg surplus situation.
But by fall, most of these hens
will have been marketed for meat,
or will be out of production.
In broilers and turkeys, said
the NEPPCO official, production
plans point to rather plentiful
supplies through this fall at reas
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