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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 13, 
LEGAL MATTERS. 
Witness of Signature. 
I am in partnership with a man who 
is a caretaker of an estate long since in 
disuse. He had a number of hens, a few 
incubators, brooders and so on, and I 
gave him one hundred dollars as a half 
interest. He gave me a receipt for it 
stating I owned half of his stock of poul¬ 
try, incubators, etc. It was dated and 
signed by him and the place designated, 
the location of the plant, I mean, but it 
was witnessed by no one, just his signa¬ 
ture. Is this legal? Can I withdraw at 
any time? The receipt does not state any 
duration. Is such an instrument neces¬ 
sary to be drawn by a notary, and would 
you advise me to have the receipt wit¬ 
nessed ? F. I,. 
Long Island. 
This seems to be legal if your partner 
made his statement of the terms full 
enough to cover your interest. You can¬ 
not withdraw at any time anymore than 
he can. An instrument such as this does 
not have to be drawn by a notary. It 
would be better for you to have the 
signature of your partner on the receipt 
witnessed as then you have a disinterested 
party to prove he signed the paper, but 
it is good of course without a witness. 
Anyone who knows his signature, how¬ 
ever, can state that it is his signature. 
M. D. 
Dispute Over Division Fences. 
I bought 100 acres of land here in 
Virginia in 1S84, and in 1SS8 traded 70 
acres of it. The division line was sur¬ 
veyed by county surveyor employed by 
the buyer, who afterward sold it, when 
it was surveyed by another county sur¬ 
veyor. It has since been twice sold, and 
the division line has always been ac¬ 
cepted by all owners until now. The 
present owner has just had it surveyed 
and claims about 21 feet in width on 
main road. What can I do? He 
threatens me with suit to recover “his” 
property. Can he change the division 
line after 26 years’ undisputed possession 
and all previous owners satisfied?” 
Virginia. j. h. c. 
If the description in the deed which 
you gave to your grantee was correct, 
and the description was correct after a 
second survey, there seems to be no 
chance whatsoever for the present owner 
to succeed in an action against you. It 
certainly would be poor policy to give up 
land after so long undisputed possession 
without fighting for it. It would be well 
to find out whether the mistake in the 
survey was made by the surveyor em¬ 
ployed by the present owner or by the 
other two surveyors. If there was a mis¬ 
take in their survey and the line fence 
was put in its present place through a 
mistake, there might be some chance for 
him to recover. Otherwise it does not 
appear how you would be liable for the 
mistakes of the surveyors nor why the 
present owner should come to you instead 
of to his grantor, who, if anyone, would 
be directly liable to the present owner.. 
M. D. 
Points of Law. 
The telephone company has a guy wire 
attached to an apple tree. Can I have 
it removed? The owner stated she did 
not give the company the right to attach 
wire to apple tree. She stated she was 
willing to have it X’emoved, but did not 
want any trouble with telephone com¬ 
pany. B. T. B. 
New York. 
If the telephone company attached 
their guy wire to the apple trees without 
authority, they are a continuing tres¬ 
passer and the owner may remove the 
wire at any time without notice; but the 
best way would be for the owner to write 
to the company that she wished to have 
the wire removed, and that if it is not 
done by a certain date, she will have it 
removed herself. 
Spraying Law in Ohio. 
What is the law of Ohio as regards 
spraying fruit trees, and penalty where 
spraying is not done? G. s. 
Waynesfield, O. 
The law follows: 
Be it enacted by the Genei*al Assem¬ 
bly of the State of Ohio: 
Section 1: That sections 6441-1 and 
6441-2 of the General Code be amended 
to read as follows: 
Sec. 6441-1. Whoever being the own¬ 
er or manager of an ox-chard, or of one 
or more fruit trees shall spray or cause 
to be sprayed said trees one or more 
times during the period from November 
first to May fifteenth with some suitable 
preparation for the destruction of the 
San Jos6, oyster shell or scurvy scale. 
Sec. 6441-2. Whoever knowingly vio¬ 
lates this act shall be fined not less than 
five dollars nor more than one hundred 
dollars for each year such spraying is 
not performed. It shall be the duty of 
the prosecuting attorney of the county in 
which any violation of this act may oc¬ 
cur or the attorney general upon the re¬ 
quest of the State board of agriculture 
or its successors to prosecute all viola¬ 
tions of this act. 
Section 2. That said original sections 
6441-1 and 6441-2 of the General Code 
be and the same is hereby repealed. 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
D OMESTIC.—With seven dead, thou¬ 
sands of feet of railroad track 
washed out and many persons driv¬ 
en from their homes in the lowlands of 
Texas, the flood situation was more ser¬ 
ious, May 28, than it has been at any 
time since last December. A dozen riv¬ 
ers in the .State were on a rampage. 
Property loss in south and southwest 
Texas is very heavy. Mexicans at 
Brownsville and elscwhei’c along the Rio 
Grande have been forced out by the flood 
water of that stream. 
The Interstate Commerce Commission 
announced, May 2.8, that it will under¬ 
take an inquiry into the financial rela¬ 
tionship existing between the Baltimore 
and Ohio and the Cincinnati. Hamilton 
and Dayton Railway. In the Senate a 
resolution was introduced by Senator 
Norris of Nebraska calling upon the At¬ 
torney-General to advise the Senate 
whether or not the New York Central 
and Hudson River Railroad and its sub¬ 
sidiaries are in an unlawful combination 
in restraint of trade. The Norris resolu¬ 
tion asks further, if the Attorney-General 
answers in the affirmative, why he has 
not proceeded against this system under 
the Sherman anti-trust law to enforce a 
dissolution. 
The Canadian Pacific Railway steam¬ 
er Empress of Ireland was sunk at 2.60 
a. m„ May 29, in the St. Lawrence Riv¬ 
er, 30 miles east of Father Point, after 
a collision with the collier Storstad. The 
Empress of Ireland, which was rammed 
amidships, sank within 14 minutes; the 
Storstad reached Quebec, though badly 
damaged. Only 452 of the 1.476 persons 
on the large steamer were saved. The 
almost immediate sinking of the big pas¬ 
senger steamship indicates that the col¬ 
lier must have torn half way through 
her, crushing the outer cabins and open¬ 
ing up and flooding the engine room im¬ 
mediately. There was practically no time 
to launch the boats which had not been 
crushed in the collision. Help was given 
by the Dominion steamship Eureka and 
the mail steamer Lady Evelyn, which 
were called by wireless during the few 
minutes befoi’e the steamer went down. 
There was a sudden fog at the time, due 
to great quantities of ice in the Gulf of 
St. Lawrence. The Empress of Ireland, 
which was one of the finest of the Cana¬ 
dian Pacific fleet, sailed from Quebec a 
few hours before the collision. The 
Storstad, a Norwegian vessel was en¬ 
gaged in carrying coal from Nova Scotia 
to Montreal and Quebec. Responsibility 
for the St. Lawrence disaster will not be 
fixed without a bitter controversy be¬ 
tween the two ship commanders con¬ 
cerned and their partisans. Capt. Ken¬ 
dall of the Empress of Ireland blames 
Capt. Andersen of the Storstad and is 
accused by Andersen. Each is supported 
by his crew. A Government commission 
will take evidence regarding it. Off 
Father Point, at the scene of the disaster, 
launches are cruising and waiting for 
bodies to appear on the river’s surface. 
It is likely that the hulk of the Empress 
of Ireland will be shattered by dynamite 
so that hundreds of corpses may be freed 
and .81,000,000 worth of silver bullion be 
salvaged. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The Depart¬ 
ment of Labor has requests for 85,000 
men to go to Oklahoma, Kansas and Mis¬ 
souri to help harvest the wheat crops. 
Secretary Wilson received a telegram, 
May 28, from Labor Commissioner John 
T. Fitzpatrick of Missouri, saying that 
it will require 30,000 men to handle the 
wheat crop, that the early harvest will 
begin about June 15 and that should the 
drought continue the harvest will begin 
earlier. Wages from $2 to $3.50 a day, 
according to experience, class of work 
and condition, will be paid. Director W. 
I. O’Brien of the Kansas State Employ¬ 
ment Bureau says that Kansas will need 
more than 40.000 men beginning June 
15, and that wages will range upward 
from $2 a day and board. Oklahoma will 
need 15,000 men. 
The Ohio Experiment Station, Woos¬ 
ter, will hold its next Wheatfield Meet¬ 
ing on Friday afternoon, June 19, to be 
followed with a meeting in the Opera 
House that evening, which will be ad¬ 
dressed by Governor Cox and at which 
Professor Vivian will give an illustrated 
lecture describing his trip around the 
world. 
The Natioual Dairy Show will be held 
at Chicago, October 22-31. Monday, 
Oct. 26, is Holstein cattle day; Oct. 27 
Ayrshire day; Oct. 28 Jersey cattle day; 
Oct. 29 Guernsey cattle day. The fol¬ 
lowing special days are arranged for: 
Friday, Oct. 23rd, Grange Day; Satur¬ 
day, Oct. 24th, County High School Pu¬ 
pils’ Day; Monday, Oct. 26th, Women’s 
Club Day; Tuesday, Oct. 27th. Railroad 
Dairy Dept. Men’s Day; Wednesday, 
Oct. 2Sth, Milk Dealers’ Day; Thurs¬ 
day, Oct. 29th, Milk Producers’ Day; 
Friday, Oct. 30th, Ice Cream Manu¬ 
facturers’ Day; Saturday, Oct. 31st, 
School Childi’en’s Day. 
In order to provide for the growing 
and selling, direct to farmers, of seed po¬ 
tatoes guaranteed to be purebred and 
free from disease, The American Florist 
states that the Houghton County Potato 
Growers’ Association was organized in 
Michigan at the beginning of this year. 
The association will specialize at first 
in the Irish Cobbler as an early and the 
Sir Walter Raleigh as a medium late 
variety. The association provides for a 
system of inspection by committees com¬ 
posed of the county agent and two mem¬ 
bers from each of the four principal lo¬ 
calities in the county. These commit¬ 
tees, with the officers of the association, 
form the executive committee. There are 
no dues, but to defray the expenses of 
the association a fee of 5 cents is charged 
for each bushel of certified seed potatoes 
sold through its agency. The association 
aims to dispose of the seed potatoes 
among the farmers rather than to dealers. 
The New York State Department of 
Agriculture has issued a warning against 
glanders or farcy, with the following or- 
der: 1. That all persons importing or 
bringing any equine from or through the 
States of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 
Connecticut, Vermont or Massachusetts 
into the State of New York, shall notify 
the Commissioner of Agriculture of the 
State of New York in writing immediate¬ 
ly upon the shipment of such animals 
into the State of New York, giving in¬ 
formation as follows: (a) The point of 
shipment; (b) The route or routes over 
which said animal or animals are to 
come into the State: (c) The point of 
destination within the State; (d) The 
time or probable time of arrival of such 
animal or animals at place of destina¬ 
tion within the State. 2. That the said 
animals so shipped, imported or brought 
in shall be held at such point of destina¬ 
tion within the State, for inspection and 
examination by the said Commissioner of 
Agriculture or his duly authorized repre¬ 
sentative, at least 10 days from the time 
of arrival at such point of destination, 
unless sooner released by the Commis¬ 
sioner of Agriculture or his duly author¬ 
ized representative. 
The annual poultrymen’s convention 
of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col¬ 
lege is to be held at Amherst. July 22, 
23 and 24. One of the special features 
this year will be a series of large charts, 
drawings, photographs and descriptive 
matter representing the correct equip¬ 
ment and proper management of a small 
Massachusetts poultry farm in all its 
details. The grounds, the houses, the 
number of hens per acre and per man, 
and the details of care and management 
will be graphically and completely illus¬ 
trated. In addition there will be as 
large and instructive an educational and 
commercial exhibit as possible. The pro¬ 
gram consists of three solid days of lec¬ 
tures and demonstrations by the best 
authorities in the country. Program in 
full will be issued about the middle of 
June and can be secured from the Direc¬ 
tor of The Extension Service, M. A. C., 
Amherst, Mass. 
The Paterson, N. .T.. Poultry, Pigeon 
and Pet Stock Association will hold its 
annual show at the Ellison Street Audi¬ 
torium Nov. 18-21. It is expected that 
there will be a horticultural display held 
with it. Following is a list of officers of 
the organization: G. W. Cisco, superin¬ 
tendent; Dr. G. Johnston, secretary- 
treasurer; Walter A. Schultz, president; 
Arthur W. Bishop, vice president; Wm. 
Horne, Assistant Secretary. Partial list 
of the judges includes W. II. Card, J. 
Harry Wolsieffer, Louis Paul Graham, 
H. J. Fiske, and James Glasgow. 
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