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By H. W. Hannah 



Associate in Farm Management 

 College of Agriculture 

 University of Illinois 



y^N THE absence of statutes fix- 

 l)l ing the responsibility of ad- 

 \^ joining owners for tlie build- 

 ing and maintenance of division fences, 

 each owner is required to fence his own 

 land. This is the old rule established 

 by common law and custom. State 

 legislatures realized that this was not 

 satisfactory, however, for when parties 

 could not agree to use one fence, two 

 fences would be built alongside each 

 other. This not only doubled the cost 

 of fencing and upkeep, but made use- 

 less the strip of land between. 



The Illinois legislature first passed 

 an act on division fences in 1819. The 

 law has been amended several times 

 since then and now provides that 

 "when two or more persons shall have 

 lands adjoining, each of them shall 

 make and maintain a just proportion 

 of the division fence between them. . ." 

 Owners ordinarily assume the respon- 

 sibility for a designated one-half of the 

 fence, usually the half on their right 

 as they face the division line when 



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standing on their own property. This 

 is not a part of the law, however! The 

 law provides that when owners can- 

 not agree on the proportion of fence 

 which should be maintained by each, 

 the township fence viewers can mark 

 and define the proportion to be built 

 or maintained by each. Town asses- 

 sors and commissioners of highways 

 are ex-officio fence viewers except in 

 counties not under township organi- 

 zation, in which case fence viewers 

 are appointed by the county board. 

 Another section of the act provides 

 that when any person who has let his 

 land lie open, afterward encloses it 

 upon the enclosure of another, he shall 

 contribute to the latter a just propor- 

 tion of the value of the fence as it 

 stands. If the parties cannot agree on 

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Vegetable Growers Meet 



The 31st annual convention of the 

 Vegetable Growers Association of 

 America and the annual meeting of 

 the Illinois State Vegetable Growers 

 Ass'n. will be held simultaneously at 

 the Sherman Hotel, Chicago, Dec. 3-7. 



Leaders among Illinois vegetable 

 growers are taking an active part in 

 planning the national as well as the 

 state meeting. 



Such subjects as "How Freezing 

 Preservation of Vegetables Helps Me 

 Make A Profit," by an Ohio grower, 

 "My Trip Around Africa," illustrated 

 with moving pictures by M. L. Rueten- 

 ik, Cleveland, Ohio, "Reciprocal Trade 

 Agreements," "Trade Barriers" by 

 Prof. B. H. Hibbard, University of 

 Wisconsin, together with new ideas 

 in growing sweet corn, tomatoes, as- 

 paragus, etc. by college men and ex- 

 perienced growers promise to make an 

 interesting and valuable program. 



State college officials. Farm Adviser 

 C. A. Hughes and other Cook County 

 Farm Bureau leaders and growers held 

 a meeting in the lAA offices several 

 months ago to plan for the meeting. 

 There will be side trips to the South 

 Water Vegetable Market, Campbell 

 Soup Co., and the International Live- 

 stock Exposition. C. E. Durst of 

 Champaign, former manager of the 

 Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange and 

 director of fruit and vegetable market- 

 ing for the lAA and August Geweke, 

 president Cook County Vegetable 

 Growers will give the addresses of 

 welcome. Durst is president of the 

 Illinois Vegetable Growers Association. 



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