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THE BUBAL WEW-YORKEB. 
CflttJ. 
“ Every Man is presumed to know the Law. 
Nine-tenths of all Litigation arises from 
Ignorance of Law." 
PROPERTY OF MINORS. 
A. S. M., Williamsport, Pa —About three 
years ago oue of ray young sons got a present 
of a young colt from an uncle. He has 
petted and cared for it ever since, and it has 
always been looked upon as exclusively his 
property. Being of good stock, it is now 
worth several hundred dollars. Not long 
since it was seized for debt by a person to 
whom my husband—the boy’s fattier—owed 
some money. I gave a bond and replevined 
the animal; does this bond cover only the 
value of^fhe animal or the judgment against 
my husband; and to whom does the animal 
belong? 
Ans. —As a general rule, when a minor re¬ 
ceives property from any other per sin 
than his father, it is his, and his father’s 
creditors have no right to it. In the 
present case, no doubt a good deal of 
the value of the animal came from the 
food supplied by the father and the 
labor of the boy, which belonged to the father; 
but so long as the father does not make any 
claim for compensation on these accounts, a 
creditor of the father can hardly make such 
a claim for him. Indeedit is very likely that, 
under the circumstances stated, any court 
would decide that the animal belongs to the 
boy. The bond given on repleviniug the 
animal covered only the damages caused by 
the taking of it, should it be decided in a suit at 
law that you had no right to take it. Toe meas¬ 
ure of that damage would be the value of the 
animal and not the amount of the judgment 
against your husband, unless the value of the 
former was greater than the amount of the 
latter, in which event, if the case should go 
against you, the balance should be given to 
your husband after the costs of the plaintiff 
had been deducted. 
AN' ALIEN’S OATH OF ALLEGIANCE TO 
THE UNITED STATES. 
A. B., Centralia, Ont., Canada. —1. Will 
the Rural give the oath of allegiance required 
by th D United States from those who want to 
be naturalized. 2. Would the Democratic 
party in the U nited States represent the Con¬ 
servative or Reform party in Canada in re¬ 
gard to free trade or protection ? 
Ans. —1. The oath of allegiance is as follows 
1, A B., do solemnly swear that I will sup¬ 
port the Constitution of the United States of 
America, and that I do absolutely and entire¬ 
ly renounce and abjure ail allegiance and 
fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, 
State, or sovereignty whatever, particularly 
to (give name of sovereign) to whom 1 was a 
subject. A. B. (Any title or order of nobility 
must also be renounced.) 2. So far as free 
trade or protection is concerned, the Demo¬ 
cratic party in the United States corresponds 
to the Reform party T in Canada; while the 
Republican party corresponds to the Con¬ 
servative party. 
a husband’s payment of mortgage on his 
wife’s real estate. 
f H. S., Canandaigua, N. Y. —My wife owns 
some real estate which is mortgaged. Can I 
pay off the mortgage so that at her death, if 
the property should be willed to her relatives, 
I can hold the mortgage against it? 1 would 
like to pay oft the mortgage, but cannot 
afford to lose the money or to give it to my 
wife’s relations. Could my wife will to me or 
my heirs the amount of the mortgage in case 
I paid it off ? 
Ans. —The wife could make a will giving to 
her husband the amount he had advanced if 
he survived her; but this would be no security, 
as women, like men, have been known to 
change their minds occasiotally. and in this 
case the wife might tear up her will and make 
a new one from which the husband might be 
entirely excluded. The best way is for the 
husband to buy up the mortgage (not to pay 
it off and discharge it from rtcord) and take 
an assignment of it, holding it in his own 
name as a lien on the property. 
A LAND LEASE. 
T. M. T., Troy, N. Y. —For some years I 
have leased a farm not far from here from A. 
The lease runs out on May 1, and A has just 
sold the land to B. The latter wants to give 
me another lease for five years beginning at 
the end of my present lease, but insists that 
1 should pay him down $250 in cash as secur¬ 
ity, on which amount he will allow four per 
cent, interest, the principal to be paid back 
at the expiration of the lease—five years from 
May 1. Should B sell the land to auother 
party before the expiration of the old lease 
pud before the new one comes into force, 
would the new lease hold good with the pur¬ 
chaser, the lease having been made, and 
the security given prior to the expiration of 
the old lease? 
Ans.—I f the new lease is duly executed.by 
B, the present owner of the farm, and is then 
put on record, it will stand against all changes 
of title until its terms are fulfilled. 
AN ASSIGNEE MUST RENDER A FULL ACCOUNT. 
V. L., Caledonia, N. Y. —Can an assignee 
be compelled to show books, papers and re¬ 
ceipts tnat a creditor or creditors may see 
that he has done justice to them? 
ans. —Yes; an assignee is a servant of the 
creditors. His office is to do justice to them 
and the debtor, but his duty is as much to 
them as to the latter. Hence he is bound in 
justice, and is equally bound by law, to show 
vouchers for all he may do, and he can only 
be legally discharged from liability by ren¬ 
dering a full account with exposure of books, 
accounts, etc., and getting a receipt and dis¬ 
charge from the creditors. 
<S'. T. L., Syracuse, N. Y. —A and B work a 
farm on shares. A hires a man by the month 
sells his share of ths crop and does not pay 
his help. Can the help collect his pay from 
B? 
Ans. No; the help has no claim on B for 
his pay. 
T. S. M, Rochester, N. Y. —In this State is 
a man compelled to support his aged father 
who is about to become a charge on the 
county? 
Ans. —Yes, indeed, by the laws of nature 
as well as by those of the State, and he may 
be compelled to support his parents in a suit¬ 
able way under penalty of fine collectable by 
attachment. 
V. L., Caledonia, N. Y. —What justice is 
there in the law which permits any bankrupt 
concern to give preference in payment to any 
one besides laborers? Those who get prefer¬ 
ence nowadays are the best able to bear the 
losses. 
Ans. —There is no feature of our present 
bankruptcy laws which is so frequently abus¬ 
ed as that which enables the bankrupt person 
to “prefer” favorite creditors for payment. 
In very many cases the debts so “ preferred ' 5 
are bogus, nominally due to the bankrupt’s 
wife or father or other member of his lannly. 
The bankrupc laws as a whole urgently need 
revision and amendment, and this provision 
more than anv other. 
CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 
T ests of varieties; forage 
FLANTS.—Bulletin No. fi from the 
Pennsylvania Experiment Station, is an in 
terestmg one. Tests of a number of varieties 
of wheat, oats, barley and potatoes have been 
made, and the results are given in this 
pamphlet. Such tests are of service to Penn¬ 
sylvania farmers who like to seek out new 
and improved varieties. It may be considered 
reasonaoly safe for them to try, in a small 
way at least, the varieties that do well at the 
Station. From last season’s trial, the Station 
authorities conclude that the R. N.-Y. No 2 
potato is “a fine variety and worthy of more 
extended trial.” An interesting account of 
the history and habits of the Manshury 
Barley will be fouud in the bulletin. The 
forage plants tested were Prickly' Comfrey, 
Kaffir corn, cow peas, Teosinte, White 
Mustard, and Brazilian or Flour corn. The 
Flour coru was killed by the frost, and the 
Teosinte did not germinate. Comparative 
analyses of the other four plants are given to 
show the total crop per acre, the amounts of 
crude nutriment and also the amounts of 
digestible materials per acre. 
Insects Injurious to Cabbage.— Bulletin 
L. of the New Jersey Experiment Station, 
gives a list of the insecis that prey upon 
cabbage plants, with good illustrations, life- 
histories and habits and the best known rem¬ 
edies. The policy of this Station is to have 
the Entomologist take oue topic at a time ana 
work it up carefully. This is a good plan. 
The present bulletin is about the best thing in 
its way that has yet been published. 
Kodak Camera. —Catalogue from the East¬ 
man Dry Plate aud Film Co., Rochester, N. Y. 
Some few weeks ago we called attention to 
this camera which we classed under the head 
of sterling novelties. It is, in our opinion, 
one of the most interesting and important in¬ 
ventions of late years. Fifteen years ago the 
telephone was a novelty—practically an un¬ 
tried device. To-day it is a household neces¬ 
sity' with thousands. Up to within a few 
years the art of photographing was monopo¬ 
lized by a few. Fifteen years hence the pub¬ 
lic will find that the camera will be almost as 
necessary as the telephone, aud something 
very like the Kodak will be in general use. 
This catalogue is interesting aud instructive. 
Growing Corn for Fodder and Ensil¬ 
age.— This is the title of Bulletin No. 4 re¬ 
cently issued for the New York Experiment 
Station. Do the farmers of New York State 
need to be told how to grow corn for fodder? 
Prof. Roberts seems to think so, for he says 
that a large majority of the farmers of the 
State, who annually raise a patch or a small 
field of fodder corn, still sow it broadcast. 
He claims that those who are most successful 
in making silage of a good quality have settled, 
beyond any doubt, that the corn must be 
grown either in hills or drills with much 
the same cultivation that is given the crop 
when grown for the grain. To present the 
truth of this claim as forcibly as possible, 
various plots of ground were planted with 
corn in hills, in drills and broadcast. The 
product of each plot was carefully weighed, 
and careful analyses were made at various 
stages in the growth of the plants. The 
results of these experiments are very forcibly 
shown in the bulletin. They are what any 
thoughful farmer would have expected. The 
drilled corn gave by far the best 
yield and the best quality of stalks. Plants 
cut September 3, gave twice as much nutri¬ 
ment as those cut August 8. and four times as 
much as those cut July 24 The subject is an 
interesting one well worked up. 
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