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Condemnation of Property for School Purposes. 
I luive recently purchased a farm on 
which a school-house was allowed to be 
put with the understanding that when it 
ceased to be a school the property reverts 
back to the owner. School has been on 
same place about 70 years. School is 
now condemned, and the district now 
claims the property, and claim they can 
condemn enough in an eight-year-old ap¬ 
ple orchard to fill out the law require¬ 
ments, take what they want and pay 
what price they say. What right has the 
owners in it? There is a first and sec¬ 
ond mortgage, and what redress is there, 
or can they do as some of the district 
want to? They have no deed for what 
they now are on; it is included in the 
farm deed. Can they remove the old 
building? E. d. h. 
If the school district can show no deed 
to their property on which their school- 
house stands, and it has always been the 
understanding of the owners of your 
property and of the voters of the district 
that the property would revert to the 
owner of the adjacent land when it was 
no longer used for a schoolhouse, then 
the district has no right to the property 
when it is no longer used for school pur¬ 
poses, nor can the district claim the 
property. If they have no deed, the only 
way they could make a claim would be 
through adverse possession, and they can 
hardly make this claim, because their 
right to the land has not been in defiance 
of that of the owner. The way this is 
generally done is to give a deed to the 
district of the property on which the 
schoolhouse stands containing a provision 
that the land shall revert to the donor or 
his heirs or assigns when the property 
is no longer used for school purposes. 
The district is given power, under Sec¬ 
tion 122 of the Education Law, to con¬ 
demn property for the purpose of provid¬ 
ing a site for a schoolhouse, but they 
must proceed in accordance with the pro¬ 
visions of the “Condemnation Law,” and 
have the property appraised and give you 
a fair price for it. This need not be done 
if you care to sell your property.at a price 
agreed on with the officers of the district. 
They can probably remove the old 
building, inasmuch as it was pul there 
with the consent of the owner. Still, if 
they put the new schoolhouse on a new 
site, the present building would probably 
be held to be real property and go with 
your land back to you. M. D. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
CROPS 
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Duties of Owner of Life Estate. 
A has the life use of a piece of prop¬ 
erty. house, barn and land. House has 
burned and life tenant left and has a 
conservator. There were unpaid taxes 
when conservator was appointed. Con¬ 
servator has rented property to himself, 
paid all bills as far as I know except 
taxes, and refuses to pay them, as he says 
he has not money to pay them and care 
for life tenant. Can the judge of probate 
allow him to discriminate on the bills he 
will pay or not pay? Can he let the tax 
bills go unpaid and take out his yearly 
charge as conservator? Can the town 
collect back taxes of the remainderman 
when the life tenant dies? u. l. d. 
Connecticut. 
The conservator stands in the place of 
his ward and it is the duty of the life 
owner to defray the taxes and water rates 
from year to year, and the interest on 
mortgages and other liens as they become 
due from time to time, and the conserva¬ 
tor must pay these taxes. You should 
call the attention of the judge of probate 
or of the tax collectors to the status of 
the case. Of course, the taxes are ac¬ 
cumulating against the property and now 
may be collected out of the interest of 
the life tenant, but if the life tenant's es¬ 
tate is or becomes valueless, it will be 
collected from the remainderman. In 
other words, the property is liable for the 
taxes and if the same cannot be collected 
Irom the estate of the life owner, it will 
come out of the property which should 
go to the remainderman. The tax author¬ 
ities can and should collect the taxes now 
of the conservator. M. d. 
Wheat, Winter, 85; corn, old, 00; 
corn, new, 75; oats 45; rye 70; potatoes 
75; apples 75; chickens 12 cents per 
pound; guineas 45 cents each; eggs 28. 
Emmetsburg, Md. j. a. at. 
Hay, Timothy $10 ; wheat 00 ; corn 75 ; 
rye 70; potatoes S5; apples $1.25 to $2; 
onions $1.25; beans $2; cabbage $2.50 a 
barrel; chicks, live 13% to 14 ; ducks 15 
to 10; geese 13 to 14; turkeys 17 to 18; 
butter, dairy 35;. eggs 40; milk per 100 
pounds, $1.75. a. at. 
Dearborn, Mich. 
Prices at Traverse City for farm pro¬ 
duce are as follows: Potatoes 50; but¬ 
ter 25 to 28; eggs 25; hay. loose $10 to 
$17; straw $10; onions $1.25; wheat 87; 
corn 70; shelled rye 50; oats 40; white 
navy beans $1.05; hand picked red kid¬ 
ney beans $2.25; buckwheat, per 100 
pounds $1.25; apples, cider, 40 cents per 
100 pounds; firsts $2.75 per barrel; sec¬ 
onds $1.25 to $1.50 per barrel, a. b. l. 
Cedar, Mich. 
Strawberries, tomatoes, and corn are 
the main^ crops here; some potatoes 
raised. Very little wheat raised here. 
Garden truck always brings fair 
prices. Prices are as follows; Wheat 
$1; corn, old, 85, new 05; pota¬ 
toes 00 in town, 50 at railroad station ; 
milk eight cents quart; butter 30; hay 
$10 to $20 per ton. Cows are very 
scarce, prices ranging from $50 to $S5. 
Eggs 34 at stores. Tomatoes at factory 
15 cents per % basket. Apples 50 cents 
per % basket. The peach crop was very i 
short, sold for $1 per 4-8 basket. Help | 
is very scarce here; we paid $1.50 per 
day for saving fodder this Fall ,j. l. 
Crisfield, lid. 
This community is inclined towards 
dairying, but has very few highly special¬ 
ized dairy farms. Since the Genesee Val- j 
ley ceased to produce wheat, the Raisin 
Valley is the oldest wheat-producing sec¬ 
tion in the East, so wheat is still a staple 
with us. Very few beef cattle of quality 
are produced here, but the fattening of 
cattle and Iambs is one of our most im- | 
portant industries. Very little fruit is 
grown for market here except apples, and 
this year they are almost a total failure, 
the neighboring farmers probably absorb¬ 
ing all the surplus from the few produc¬ 
ing orchards. Prices current to-day, 
Oct. 15: Apples. $1 a bushel; wheat. 89 ; 
cream (butter fat). 29% ; butter (dairy). 
20 ; eggs, 20 ; fat cattle, $7 per cwt. down ; 
hogs, $8 per cwt. o. T. D. 
Clinton, Mich. 
V e are in the market gardening busi¬ 
ness, wholesale and retail. We have 
regular market days, three times a week. 
These were recent prices: 
Wholesale Retail 
^ . bushel peck 
Turnips . * $0.30 $0.20 
Carrots . GO 30 
Beets . 50 24 
Spinach . 35 24 
Kale . 25 20 
String beans .... 75 40 
Dima “ ... 1.00 45 
Tomatoes . 70 32 
Lettuce, box, wholesale 50. retail, each 
5 cents head; cabbage, wholesale per 100. 
$3. retail 4-10 cents head; bunch beets. 
wholesale_ per dozen, 35, retail, bunch. 5: 
carrots 5; Ivohl-rabi 5; green bunch 
onions eight cents dozen. 
Strictly fresh eggs 42 per dozen; Kief- 
tor pear $1 per bushel, short crop; re¬ 
tail 50 cents peck. g. p. m. 
Colegate, Md. 
Potatoes 90 to $1; wheat $1; corn in 
field 08 to 75: straw (Rye) unthrashed 
•M;> per ton; hay $20 per ton. Milk 4% 
cents per quart wholesale; Fall grass and 
pasture looking fine on account plenty of 
rain. Farmers devote most of land to 
raising potatoes: some raise from 20 to 
i() acres, most Giants. Nearly all sow 
cover crop, using cow peas, " Crimson- 
clover, wheat, rye and vetch. Very few 
milk dairies although milk brings from 
4 to 4% at wholesale and good sale at 
that price all the year. Help scarce, a 
great deal of Southern colored help, also 
Polish and some Swedes. Monmouth and 
Middlesex counties in fact most of New 
Jersey, gave better markets than anv 
other section or States. Several of the 
larger towns have farmers’ markets, such 
as New Brunswick. Perth Amboy. Free¬ 
hold, besides most of the towns here have 
the Monmouth County Farmers’ Ex¬ 
change, which handles practically all of 
the potatoes grown in this section and 
also furnishes the farmers with seed po¬ 
tatoes, lime, manure, etc. f. ii. d. 
Monmouth Co,, N. J. 
BARGAIN 
The dealers pay here for hay $15; 
^ats 4.); wheat 95; apples 75; potatoes 
•*•>; butter 35; eggs 34. Hay was a fair 
‘ lop and grain of all kinds except buck¬ 
wheat was good, buckwheat almost a to- 
'•d failure. This is a great potato pro¬ 
ducing county, but this year they were 
almost a total failure, some pieces not 
worth digging, others going from 20 to 
•><) bushels to the acre. Same fields in 
a_go»d season would have yielded 150 to 
: oi) bushels to acre, but we had no rain 
ironi planting time till the frost killed 
'hem in the middle of September. Some 
'elds escaped the frost on the hills, but 
all were killed in the valleys. Farmers 
iV 6 Quite blue over the potato crop, as 
mat is their money crop. e. h. s. 
JI or m41, N. Y. 
The Rochester, N. Y., Markets. 
Apples, best, $1; grapes, Niagara, 4| 
to 4% cents per pound; potatoes, best 80 
to 90; carrots 50 to GO cents per 100 
pounds; cabbage $15 to $17 per ton; 
Hubbard squash three-quarters to one 
cent per pound; turnips 35 to 40: toma¬ 
toes, ripe, 20 to 25 cents per basket; to¬ 
matoes, greem 25 to 30 per bushel; eggs, 
guaranteed, 45 emits per dozen at stores; 
wheat, 90 to 92; corn 80 to 85 per GO 
pounds; oats. 45 to 47 per 32 pounds; 
rye, GG to G8 per bushel: hay, loose. $15 
to $18; straw, oat and wheat, $10 to 
$12; hogs, dressed, $11.50 to $12 per 100 
pounds; turkeys, dressed, 28 to 32; 
fowls. 20 to 21 : Spring chicken 22 to 23: 
Spring lamb 15% to 1G; yearling lamb 11 
to 12; veal 16 to 17. c. I. 
Rochester, N. Y. 
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