1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
745 
TALKS WITH A LAWYER. 
Collection of Back Rent. 
Can land or back rent on my farm be 
collected? I have been told that a law has 
been passed doing away with same. l. 
New York. 
We do not understand what you mean 
by your question, “Whether land or back 
rent on my farm can be collected.” If 
you have leased a farm to another and 
rent is in arrears, it can, of course, be 
collected, and no legislation can prevent 
this. It is impossible to answer .more 
definitely because the question is not 
wholly intelligible. 
Obstructed Ditch. 
About 10 acres of my 50-acre farm 
forms a natural basin, being surrounded 
by higher land except to the east. This 
basin has for the last 50 years or more 
been drained by a ditch, which runs through 
my neighbor’s farm to the east and from there 
crosses the road and empties into a brook. 
My neighbor has permitted his end of the 
ditch to become clogged by the growth of 
brush, weeds and grass, thereby preventing 
the water from draining off my land, there¬ 
by making the same almost useless. This 
basin meadow Is fine hay land and has in 
former years yielded large crops of Timothy. 
What remedy, if any, have 1 in this matter? 
New York. h. h. l. 
Chapter 433, Laws of New York, 1904, 
furnishes a remedy where an adjoining 
owner fails to keep open a ditch running 
through his and his neighbor's land. If 
upon request he does not open the ditch, 
you can have proceedings taken through 
the fence viewers to cause the ditch to be 
opened at his expense. The Act provides 
the method of procedure. 
A Creamery Lease. 
I am renting a creamery; the lease was 
made three years ago for two years, with the 
privilege of five years. By October 1 I occu¬ 
pied the building 3% years. The lease calls 
for the rent to be paid semi-annually, April 1 
and October 1. The annual rent is $100. I 
paid my rent promptly every time, but the 
company of whom I rent fail to do any re¬ 
pairs. The well, which Is the only water 
supply, is cribbed; the cribbing is all rotten, 
and the water smells so badly that I cannot 
use it for butter-making; besides, it is dan¬ 
gerous to use in the boiler, becoming foamy. 
A great many of the window lights are loose, 
and some have dropped out; others have been 
knocked out by boys. I have called the com¬ 
pany’s attention to this, especially the presi¬ 
dent’s, time and again, but they pay no at¬ 
tention to it, so I have made arrangements to 
ship all my milk to another place this Win¬ 
ter and would like to give up this building 
by October 1. Have I a right to do so? The 
term of five years will not be up until April 
1, 1907, but I cannot run a creamery busi¬ 
ness under such circumstances. What notice 
must I give the company to leave, and when? 
Pennsylvania. k. 
Unless your lease provides that the 
landlord must keep the premises in repair, 
you cannot call upon him to remedy the 
defects complained of. In such case the 
tenant is obliged to make the ordinary 
repairs. This being so you cannot, of 
course, surrender your lease upon the 
ground stated. 
Trespass on River Front. 
A leases a piece of land on river front 
from B for 20 years. B sells his home to D ; 
the piece of leased land is in front of this 
home. D uses the landing, A granting him 
the right. There is a little inlet or ditch 
that passes through the piece of leased land 
from the river to D’s land, serving to drain 
off water: also boatmen have used it for 40 
years or more as harbor for small boats, no 
one objecting. A had boat in said inlet 
when lease expired. A short time after D 
told his boys to pull A’s boat out and turn 
it adrift, which they did, towing it for half 
mile beyond inlet to channel of river and 
turned it adrift. D claims he notified A to 
remove boat, but cannot prove .such except 
by his boys. Has A any redress for the 
act, and what charge would he have to bring? 
Maryland. J. 
If A’s boat has been recovered by him 
without serious damage, we advise him 
to drop the matter. From the state¬ 
ment, we assume D became possessed of 
the leased land at the expiration of A’s 
lease, and that the boat was therefore 
moored to the shore belonging to D. The 
boat was accordingly trespassing upon D’s 
property. Even so, however, he could 
not destroy the property. He could 
impound it in case A refused to 
remove it, and unless no other 
method remained D was not, in 
our opinion, justified in towing the boat 
into the midstream and there letting it 
drift to destruction. A could bring an 
action for damages against D for unnec¬ 
essarily causing the loss of his property 
in thus dealing with it. 
PRODUCTS, PRICES, AND TRADE. 
Squash Market. —“I have several car¬ 
loads of Hubbard squash and will have to 
ship them as there is no home market here. 
Give the address of reliable commission firms 
handling squashes in several cities and any 
information possible in regard to the best 
time and way of handling. t. w. 
Michigan. 
The addresses desired have been given this 
inquirer. As to specific directions it will be 
well to follow closely the instructions of the 
parties to whom shipment is made, as they 
know best the requirements of their trade. 
Squashes are very low in this market at pres¬ 
ent, going from jobbers’ hands at 40 to 00 
cents per barrel, not an inviting price for 
long-distance shipments. They will doubt¬ 
less be higher later, when the pie season is 
in full blast. Squashes are not easy things 
to handle. To avoid decay they should be 
kept from frost and in a dry. airy place, 
conditions sometimes hard to get in shipment. 
Selling Roots, Herbs, etc.— “Where can 
I sell roots, herbs, etc; spearmint and pep¬ 
permint oils at prices quoted in The It. 
N.-Y.?” i s. 
New York. 
The prices referred to cover sales from 
jobbers' hands, and include transportation, 
and at least one profit. The price paid pro¬ 
ducers will run from 15 to 50 per cent below 
this depending on quality. The dealers aim to 
buy as low as they can, and probably most 
sales are the result of some bargaining after 
seeing the stock or fair samples of it. The 
wholesale general drug houses and botanic 
druggists handle these goods, but they often 
seem indifferent and need more or less coax¬ 
ing to get an offer out of them, unless one 
has a product that is particularly fine. 
Weight of Beans.— Several readers ask 
what is the standard weight of a bushel of 
beans in New York State. In most States 
it is 60 pounds. New York and Vermont 
seem to be exceptions in having 62 pounds. 
The actual weight of a carefully measured 
and struck bushel of beans varies from 50 to 
65 pounds, depending upon size and consist¬ 
ency. Beans and all grain ought to be dealt 
in by weight alone. What is the use of 
buying and selling by the bushel and then 
specifying that the bushel shall weigh a cer¬ 
tain amount, which it does not? It would 
be as sensible to buy by the pound and 
then specify that the pound should be 14 or 
18 ounces. In cases mentioned by some cor¬ 
respondents where beans were sold at so much 
a bushel and nothing definite was said as to 
the weight, they must expect to furnish what 
is considered the State standard, and. in case 
of law suits from refusal to do this, any fan- 
minded jury would look on a custom fixed 
by long usage in the same light as a statute 
law It would be verv unwise, however, to 
go to law about this. Before selling one 
should find out what the buyer expects. 
Investments. —A man with a thirst for 
getting hold of other people's money has got 
the writer’s name and keeps sending letters, 
circulars and booklets, the burden of which 
is that he can handle my money to better 
advantage than I can. The only visible 
ground for this assurance seems to be the 
fact that for several years he has been in 
this same sort of business, and thus far has 
found plenty of people ready to hand their 
money over to him. lie has no manufactur¬ 
ing plant, gives no list of assets, and those 
investing with him have no more tangible 
security than his word. The arguments used 
are so plausible that one feels almost like 
sending him the money, even though common 
sense says otherwise. He has a number of 
imitators in this line of business, all anx¬ 
ious to benefit their fellow men. But the 
$100 or so asked for would better be put 
into a new henhouse or hogpen or used to add 
to the comforts of home the coming Winter. 
There is a notion in current thought that 
the most valuable quality of a dollar is its 
ability to reproduce itself in kind, that only 
investments which pile up money are worth 
much consideration. The smart young man 
who, starting with small means, becomes a 
money king at 35. is boomed before the pub¬ 
lic as a wonder, though an investigation of 
the way he has got there shows that he has 
constantly grazed the shady edge of business, 
and not a few times, on his own account or as 
a willing pupil and tool of bigger and sharper 
schemers, has used lying and stealing as 
means most available for carrying out his 
purposes. But we hear little of the men who, 
starting at 25. have hewed productive farms 
and comfortable homes out of the wilderness, 
or have shouldered and paid crushing farm 
mortgages, work that has required as much 
thought, skill and judgment as that of the 
financier, and has contributed tef the stabil¬ 
ity of this country and its homes. The fact 
that a dollar will grow into other actual 
dollars when properly salted down is worth 
knowing, and of course it is prudent to lay 
away a fair part of one’s income for this 
purpose if possible. But of far more import¬ 
ance is the fact that a dollar will make 
other things grow; that it will produce ap¬ 
ples. wheat, etc.; that it will supply life to 
manufacturing and commerce: and give 
worthy human ambition, a chance to work 
out its aim. __ n - 
Strawberries and Celery.— The pic¬ 
ture shown on our first page is sent by 
Chas. Cooper, who has something of a 
reputation for producing late strawber¬ 
ries. The boxes of ripe berries are Pan- 
American, while the growing plants are 
the new Autumn bloomer. The celery 
was grown near the berries. 1 hese Fall- 
bearing fruits are interesting as novelties, 
but would hardly be profitable on a large 
scale, as small fruits out of their season 
are only in limited demand. 
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