THre RURA.I> NEW-YORKER 
646 
1911. 
THE CONNECTICUT FIRE KINDLING LAV/. 
The State of Connecticut has a law 
designed to regulate the kindling of fires 
which might spread and cause damage. 
Briefly stated the vital part of the law 
is as follows: 
Sec. 1220. Kindling Fires Without Per¬ 
mission—No person shall kindle a fire upon 
public land, without authority, nor upon 
the land of another without permission of 
the owner thereof, or his agent. 
Sec. 1221. Fires on Woodland, When 
Prohibited—No person shall kindle, or au¬ 
thorize another to kindle, a fire in his 
woodland, unless all combustible materials 
for the space of six feet surrounding the 
place where said fire is kindled have been 
removed, nor shall any such fire be left 
until extinguished or safely covered. 
One of our readers, Mr. J. Hurley, 
of Litchfield County, sends us a copy 
of the permit which was issued to him. 
We have had it engraved, and it is pub¬ 
lished herewith. Mr. Hurley thinks 
that the law “is a great annoyance and 
trouble.” He goes so far as to say that 
it is an insult to the intelligence of 
Connecticut farmers. He says that some 
of them will not take out the permit. 
The result is that grass, weeds and 
bushes which would otherwise be 
burned, are permitted to grow so that 
when dry weather comes they are a 
great danger and nuisance. He further 
apples that would surely prove satisfactory. 
This man paid $4.50 for the barrel, took 
them home, and when he got to the middle 
claimed that he found a quantity of small 
and inferior fruit. In trying to trace the 
matter down this man claimed that there 
appeared on the barrel the name of one of 
the most honorable growers and handlers 
in New York State. We have known this 
fruit grower for years. There is no one 
handling apples who has a better reputa¬ 
tion. We were interested, therefore, in 
hunting this matter up. There are four or 
five ways in which such a thing could hap¬ 
pen. Most growers, or many growers, sort 
their fruit in the orchard into several 
grades. The apples are hurried into the 
storage, and are to be repacked and handled 
later in the season. As a rule, when the 
apples are handled in this way the name 
of the grower is simply written in pencil 
on the barrel for identification. The inten¬ 
tion is to repack the apples in storage and 
send them out definitely guaranteed as No. 
1, No. 2 or No. 3. The grower in question 
has such a good reputation in this market 
that he could even sell cider apples here 
at a fair price. They come here carefully 
marked as such, and anyone who finds 
them will know that he is not getting the 
very highest grade of fruit. We under¬ 
stand that in the case mentioned the name 
of the grower was written in pencil upon 
the apples. It would appear, therefore, 
that in this case the barrel intended to be 
marked No. 2 was taken from storage when 
repacked and shipped to be sold as No. 2. 
At the time of this sale No. 1 apples from 
this same grower were selling at from $6 
to $7. Probably that was the way the 
PERMIT FOR KINDLING FIRES 
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in accordance zrnth- Section 4, Chapter 12S, Public Acts of 1909, quoted below , providing that 
t]ie fire be carefully watc hed and conlroltedb ya sufficient force a nd that the laws governing 
the building- of fires are fully complied with. {See Gen'l. Slats. Secs. 1096 , 1220,1221)* 
says that farmers who live near a town 
or village could under this law carry 
their trash or rubbish inside the town 
territory and burn it there without a 
permit. In order to learn the senti¬ 
ment among farmers regarding this law 
we corresponded at once with a good 
number of our readers, merely asking 
them what they thought of the law, and 
the general sentiment among their 
neighbors. Thus far a great majority 
of them say that they think the law is 
a good one. The following extracts 
from farmers are fair samples of re¬ 
ports to us. We do not understand how 
there could be any difference of opinion 
regarding the law, but the facts appear 
to be as we give them, the law being 
apparently regarded as a wise one by 
the majority of the farmers. 
I have found no one who does not ap¬ 
prove of the law and its more stringent 
enforcement. One farmer near here has 
just been jailed for starting a fire without 
permission, same becoming unmanageable 
and doing considerable damage on surround¬ 
ing farms. There can be no doubt that 
such a law is needed, and that more rigid 
enforcement is yet more desirable. r. 
The law about fires in the open is fairly 
well enforced. The majority get permission 
from fire warden to burn brush. It is sel¬ 
dom refused by him. There are times and 
cases where he thinks it especially dan¬ 
gerous, and tells the applicant to wait till 
after a rain. I have heard of no particular 
complaint. The danger from fire is so 
great that all are beginning to realize it is 
necessary to take precautions, and are not 
kicking at a little restriction in this line. 
I am in favor of the present law, and 
would be willing to see it more rigidly en¬ 
forced. I think this view is the general 
sentiment about the State. Of course there 
are some that will find fault with any re¬ 
striction. c. L. G. 
MORE ABOUT THAT APPLE DEAL. 
On page 458 we gave an account of an 
apple deal. A man in eastern New York 
bought a barrel of apples said to have been 
packed in Wayne County. He stated that 
the commission man called them first-class 
matter came about. In other cases the 
handler is often responsible for this work. 
We have known of cases where a buyer 
would secure quite a large quantity of 
mixed apples. They will all be thrown 
from the barrel and repacked in such a way 
that they would appear as No. 1 at the top 
or bottom, while inside inferior apples are 
put. To add to the discredit of such a per¬ 
formance, these dishonorable handlers will 
sometimes gather up empty packages in the 
market which carry the name of a reliable 
grower. They will fill these empty pack¬ 
ages with inferior goods, nicely topped, and 
sell the stuff on the reputation of the man 
who sold the original package. J. H. Ilale 
suffered quite severely in years past from 
this very fraud. He puts his goods up in 
an attractive package with a striking red 
label. We know of cases where peach 
growers obtained Hale’s empty boxes in 
the market, took them home and filled them 
with their own peaches and sold them again. 
The world is full of tricks, and every trade 
seems to have them. It is a shame when 
honest men are made to suffer through the 
dishonesty and fraud of other people, but 
the reputable grower cannot possibly be too 
careful to know just what he has sent out 
and what his name covers. 
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