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should bite a person who should chance to go within his reach. A 

 farmer has a right to protect his land against the trespass of grow- 

 ing trees on adjoining land by cutting off all protruding roots and 

 overhanging branches, up to the line of his land, but he must not 

 convert them to his own use unless he is willing to pay the owner 

 of the trees the fair value of the roots and branches for firewood 

 or other purposes. But if the owner of real estate allows the 

 branches of his neighbor's trees to grow out over his premises he 

 is not entitled to any of the fruit that may grow thereon, as the 

 fruit upon the branches of every tree belongs to the owner of the 

 trunk of the tree. A farmer has a right also to protect his land 

 from all surface water if he can do so by raising the grade of his 

 land or by the erection of embankments thereon. He may even 

 stop up the mouth of a culvert built by a town across the road for 

 the purpose of conducting surface water upon his land, but he 

 must be careful in so doing not to exceed the limits of his own 

 land. 



It will thus be seen that while the farmer holds his land under 

 certain restrictions and limitations, he yet has many rights as well 

 as liabilities under our trespass laws. 



