Show I GAME IN THE CITY SALT LAKE CITY March 4 Sl Editors Herald V Yesterday afternoon everybody was gazing with admiration upon Venus with the naked eye and today to-day everybody is thinking about I our new President and Dav McKenzies Macbeth Lay on McDuff and so on But that is no t what I am going t say What I want to say is that you cannot have a satisfactory garden if your neighbors neigh-bors chickens run loose on it all the summer Chickens old or young will eat strawberries raspberries curt gooseberries grapes lettuce I let-tuce cabbage tomatoes corn and I almost everything in the garden and a good deal of it and much that V they dont eat they will spoil They will scratch up your seeds and newly set plants and play hog witl your water furrows A man told me some time ago that his wife had raised about fifty chickens in the summer and sold them in the fall or winter making such a good thing out of them that she thought of raising a hundred the next season Why said It dont they cost you a much a they are worth 0 no said he we never feed them NoW he had only a small lot not large enough for half a dozen unfed chickens to fine ther living on So I could not resist the conviction that his wifes very profitable chickens must have oeen raised at the expense of ha neighbors which does not appear t me to be a very commendable way to raise chickens however profitable t the owners of the birds Our city fathers have properly provided that chicken may either be shut up in summer by thtSr owners or shut down upon sum manly by the owners neighbors I is against the law for domestic fowls to run at large during the growing season There i an ordinance ordi-nance which says All fowl such as turkeys ducks geese and hens found running at large at any time between the 1st day of March and the 1st day of October shall be for feited to and shall be liable to be cilled by any person upon whose premises theymay be found trespassing trespass-ing So that a mans fowls running run-ning on his neighbors lot are not his own but his neighbors and the atters to have and to enjoy alive or dead a seemeth to him good The above provision thus makes owls like common game or common ermin for seven months to those on whose lands they trespass While this is a just and righteous law still people do not like to confiscate or > destroy their neighbors trespassing trespass-ing fowlsbecause isliable to excite unneighborly feelings But it hasp has-p be done in selfdefense sometimes some-times because strawberries are expensive ex-pensive food to feed fowls upon especially es-pecially when those fowls are not your own and the strawberries are So of much other garden stuff The best and most peaceable preventive lies with the owners of the fowls The right and proper tiling is for nobody to keep fowls in the city unless he can keep them on his own premises entirely through the sumner sum-ner If a mal does not like to raise chickens for his neighbors t kill id eat neither does his neighbor like to feed chickens for him to klan kl-an eat or s l A good rule of con duct is to do a you would be done by One thing more That chicken ordinance shonld be extended to include in-clude until the first of November for the reason that there are many I grapes and other garden crops which I chickens prey upon and which are gathered during the greater part of October and sometimes later sons than that in particularly mild O sea |