1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
TALKS WITH A LAWYER. 
Contamination of Water. 
I could not get along without The R. 
N.-Y.; I had it so many years that I cannot 
remember when I commenced to take it. and 
I have got you a few subscribers first and 
last. Now I have a question to ask you. 
Has a man the right to foul my water 
oughly soaked by floating the boxes in a 
pan or tub of water. The boxes should 
then be covered with a pane of glass and 
kept in a rather shaded place, where they 
can have an even temperature of about 
60 degrees. When the tiny seedlings have 
made a leaf or two they may be carefully 
, pricked out and planted one or two inches 
suddIy for mv mllcli cows and horses by , £ • *i a « +U,*,. 
ruling his tail from his house and water apart m boxes of similar soil. As they 
closet into it? I get my water supply for grow in size they should be potted up in 
my stock from a creek that never dries up, three or four-inch pots and allowed to 
but most of the time all the water could go com pl e t e their growth in some partially 
through a four inch pipe; a good part of the T1l „, 
way through my pasture the creek is about 
18 Inches wide. It comes from the woods 
into my lot and runs 2S rods (on my land) 
near a line fence; then leaves my lot and 
runs 14 rods near the line fence into the 
lot of the man who has turned his drain 
Into it (by making his drain 20 rods long) ; 
then it runs again 28 rods in my lot near 
shaded place. They need considerable 
moisture, but one should avoid wetting 
the leaves more than is necessary after 
they have grown some size. The plants 
seldom bloom the first year from seed, 
but form tubers that may be kept over in 
boxes of sawdust or dry sand in a warm, 
the said line into other parties’ lots, where ^ p] ace through the Winter, and potted 
more houses are erected and where it takes ^ rjch soil when growth star tS 
the drains from many houses in the ullage. f . . . . 
but below me the creek is not used as a in early Spring. Choice varieties are m- 
water supply for anything. This property creased by leaf cuttings, which should be 
is all situated in village limits. Below me ta j <en ; n midsummer and rooted in moist 
there are no (or nearly none)^ vacant lots . a warm , shady place. The leaves 
and creek is common dumping ground 101 an > t • . . 
private drains, but the creek is a water may be cut in small pieces, retaining a 
supply for no one's stock in that section, portion of the stem or midrib and firmly 
It Is different for me; my land has been ; nserte( j ; n tj ie san d. Watering should 
used for pasture for 50 years or more, and 
my stock have obtained water at most con¬ 
venient place for them. °- B - 
New York. 
Your neighbor has no right to pollute 
the stream flowing through your land. 
While the upper owner may use the 
stream in every reasonable way, he can¬ 
not make such a use of it as to damage 
the owner belo.w him. If the drain in 
question does in fact pollute the water to 
be carefully attended to, and the cuttings 
never allowed to dry out. They will 
strike roots in time and eventually form 
small tubers that may be carried over 
Winter like those grown from seed. 
Plants or tubers grown from cuttings re¬ 
tain the characteristics of the parent, and 
are exact duplicates of the same, while 
those grown from seed may vary indefi¬ 
nitely. There is little use in attempting to 
such an extent as to render it unfit for r00t cuttings from, leaves late in the Fall, 
use by stock, there is no question but as ^j ie plants have made their growth for 
When you write advertisers mention The 
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what the courts would restrain the upper 
owner from continuing to drain his refuse 
into the stream. In the same action G. B. 
would be entitled to recover whatever 
damages he can show he has suffered for 
the past pollution of the stream. 
Trees Encroaching Over Line. 
What is the law in villages as to fruit 
trees hanging over line fences and damaging 
the neighbor's crops or causing the death 
of his trees? I refer to large apple trees 
encroaching in this way on village gardens. 
New York. A - s - 
The owner of property over which trees 
whose trunks are planted in adjoining 
property hang, has a right to remove the 
overhanging portions, provided that the 
owner of the adjoining property does not 
do so, upon request. 
Trespass by Telephone Company. 
Has a telephone company the right to nail 
a wire without permission on an apple tree 
in an orchard to support a pole? A company 
has been putting up new poles along the road 
in front of me and they have a wire on a 
young apple tree inside my fence by placing 
a board between two limbs and driving a 
12-penny nail into each limb. The tree has 
been planted about 10 years. Am I justified 
in removing it? j. h. d. 
New York. 
You would be justified if you removed 
the wire complained of. The telephone 
company is a trespasser, and can be pro¬ 
ceeded against just as any other tres¬ 
passer. 
Trespass in Fence Building. 
If in building a new fence the old material 
is left on property of an adjoining owner, 
Is the adjoining owner required to remove 
the stone, etc., or is the one who owns and 
rebuilds the fence required to do so? 
Connecticut. H. f. n. 
He who places the old material upon 
the land of an adjoining owner without 
his consent is guilty of a trespass, and is 
liable for the damages caused by such 
trespass. __ 
Tuberous-Rooted Begonias. 
H. 8. R., Cape Elizabeth, Me .—How can 
I propagate the tuberous-rooted Begonias? 
Ans. —The tuberous-rooted Begonias 
are best propagated by seed, which should 
be very carefully sown in the window 
garden or greenhouse in February or 
early March in small boxes of very light, 
rich soil. Ordinary cigar boxes are very 
good for the purpose. The seed is very 
fine and needs no covering. It should be 
carefully sprinkled over the soil, which 
should first be pressed level and thor- 
the season and cannot be induced to live 
longer. The cuttings should not, there¬ 
fore, be made later than midsummer. The 
propagation of Begonias by leaf cuttings 
is rather uncertain, and seldom succeeds 
except under the care of experts, while 
seedlings can be grown by anyone willing 
to give the necessary care and attention. 
DITCHING THAT SAVES THE BACK. 
We think you will find the following 
a good practical back-saving method for 
digging ditches. Take two planks 2 x 10 
inches, eight feet long, and make a three- 
cornered scraper; it will resemble the 
letter A. Bore a hole in each side about 
six inches from the front end to run a 
chain through. Plow one furrow and 
throw it out with the scraper, on the 
same side the furrow is on. Repeat this 
twice and the ditch will be about 18 
inches deep. To finish take a ditching 
plow with an evener about eight feet 
long to allow the horses to walk outside 
the dirt thrown out. The plow' will take 
the place of picking by hand. After the 
tile are laid fill in enough to hold them 
in place and finish with plow and scraper. 
A man should ride on the scraper to hold 
it down. e. H. p. 
Shortsville, N. Y. 
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The work is easy and 
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There is more in it for 
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it worth doing. 
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An Appreciation. —I have been a reader 
of The R. N.-Y. for a good many years. 
While I am not engaged in farming at pres¬ 
ent, I take a great interest In it. I raise 
flowers for the love of It, it is my “hobby.” 
There is seldom an issue of your paper that 
does not contain some information of suffici¬ 
ent interest to me to be worth the price of 
subscription. w. h. m. 
Ogden, Utah. 
Killing Canada Thistles. —On page 665 
G. D. B. desires to know how to get rid of 
Canada thistles and says he has dug them all 
out twice. If he dug them all out once they 
certainly could trouble him no more. I do 
not believe they can be squelched by digging. 
I will give a little of my own experience with 
the pest. Nearly 30 years ago 1 had in a 
field of oats a patch of about one-quarter 
acre. They were big fellows; high as the 
oats, and ripened with them. In those days 
we harvested with the self-rake reaper, bind¬ 
ing by hand, but these were drawn In loose 
and made a good load. A few days later the 
ground was plowed for wheat and was quite 
dry. The next year, when we harvested the 
wheat, there was scarcely a thistle to be 
seen, and none to trouble us since. I have 
also cut them close to the ground in pastures 
and other places just before going to seed 
with good results. The stalks are then hol¬ 
low and I think the action of tffic weather 
In some manner kills the roots. I do not 
think we can he entirely rid of them, else how 
dkl we first get them? If I could cope with 
ragweed. Quack grass, wild carrot, Broad-leaf 
plantain and this new pest that has spread 
so rapidly the last three or four years, the 
Sow thistle or wild lettuce, ns easily as I 
can with the Canada thistle, T could keep my 
farm reasonably clear of foul stuff. Mowing 
the wheat stubble In the Fall Is good prac¬ 
tice. w. J. B. 
Orleans Co., N. Y. 
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