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January 26, 1918 
U A DDIQ’ GARDEN 
n/\A.i\iO farm seeds 
Are standard for quality. There 
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about Harris’ Seeds. 
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Harris Marks Each Package Like This 
When sowing Harris’ Seeds you can tell 
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Seed of which 75% will grow should be sown thicker than another 
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Harris you can’t tell which to sow thick and which thin. 
According to our Test* 
96 per cent. 
of this seed germinates 
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Harris Seeds 
Label on every Lo:t 
Tell^how many 
will 
firow 
According fo our tests 
98 percent 
of this seed germinates 
JOSEPH HARRIS 
COMPANY 
Box 23 
Coldwater, N.Y. 
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Legal Questions 
Employers’ Liability Laws 
Will you advise me what State.s have 
j passed laws fixing the extent of employers’ 
[liability for injuries received b.v employees, 
and what State, in your opinion, has ‘‘the 
jbe.st huv” on this subject? C. II. F. 
rascagoula. Miss. 
j The following .32 States have employer.?’ 
diabilit.v laws: Arizona, California, Colo- 
ji-ado, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, 
Kansas, Kentucky, I.onisiana, Maine, 
Maryland, Massachusetts, Mich., Minne¬ 
sota, Montana. Nebraska, Nevada. New 
IIam)»shire, New .Torsey, New York, Ohio, 
Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania. Rhode 
Island. Texas. Vennont, Washington, 
West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming. Con¬ 
gress has also passed laws for United 
State.?, Alaska, Hawaii and I’orto Rico. 
'I'he question of which are the best laws is 
a matter of viewpoint. Best for whom, the 
employer, his family, or for the public? 
Oregon pays the largest death benefit, 
other States larger sick benefits. Other 
States have laws covering a larger per 
[cent of employers. Very few Southern 
States have these laws. F. N. c. 
Engineers’ Hours of Labor 
I understand that it is not lawful to 
require a fireman, engineer or mechanic, 
in New York State, to work seven days 
per week, eight-hour days and no time off. 
Is this true, whether with a contract or 
not? Does this law apply to engineers 
in the New York State Civil Service as 
well as those not in the Civil Service? 
i New York. E. ii. s. 
That .section of the Labor law provid¬ 
ing for one day of rest in seven only ap¬ 
plies to factory and mercantile estab¬ 
lishments, while that part of the law 
specifying the inimbor of hours constitut¬ 
ing a day’s work states that “nothing in 
this section shall be construed to apply 
to stationarj' firemen in State hospitals,” 
'so the best conclusion is that the one 
.day’s rest in seven law does not cover an 
engineer under Civil Service in a State 
institution. If you want rest on Sunday 
you must provide for it yourself in your 
contract of employment. 
Ownership of Driftwood 
Last Spring I rented my farm on equal 
.shares. The lease reads. “Second party 
.shall have his firewood, and shall gather 
the same from creek flats.” Soon after 
he moved on the place (in the Spring), 
a freshet washed over the flats, leaving 
lum'ber. siding, flooring and a lot of 2 by 
4’s. With iny help he picked this np. 
Tie has never used it for firewood (hav¬ 
ing used other driftwood), but has re¬ 
cently had it drawn off the farm. Has 
he a right to dn this? If not. to whom 
does above wood belong? Also, has he 
a right to draw firewood away from my 
farm at the expiration of the lease? 
Oneida, N. Y. E. A. s. 
Unless the lease specifically gave the 
tenant the right he would not have the 
privilege of drawing away any firewood 
at the expiration oi the lesise. If he 
could where would be the limit? This 
driftwood jirobably belongs to the tenant. 
He salvaged it at a time when he had a 
right to be on the property to the ex¬ 
clusion of the owner. He is in the posi- 
jtion of the finder of lost property. He 
I has a good right to it against all tlie 
world except the rightful owner. Your 
helping him would not give you a claim 
to the property unless you acted as a 
partner or sharer. 
Distribution of Property 
1. Please state the law governing the 
property rights of husband and wife in 
each other’s property, real and jiersonal, 
at the death of either with children, also 
without. 2. Also give the legal rights of 
widow when there is a will made by hus¬ 
band leaving half of his iiroperty, real 
and per.sonal, to wife, the other half to 
daughter. Can the wife hold furniture cr 
other articles? MRS. E, A. c. 
New York. 
1. On the death of the husband without 
a will the real property would vest as 
follows: The wife would have her dower 
of a, life interest in one-third thereof and 
the balance would go to the children : if 
no children the balance would go to the 
deceased husband’s father or mother or 
brothers and sisters, etc. The personal 
property, after the payment of debts, 
would be distributed one-third to the 
widow and the balance in equal portion.? 
to the children. If no children, the wife 
igets one-half and the other half to the 
next of kin, and if there be no descendant, 
parent, brother, sister, nephew or niece, 
the widow takes the whole. 
2. The provisions of the will would 
apply to the furniture as well as to 
everything else and they would have to 
share it equally unless they could other¬ 
wise agree on another division. 
Loss of Heifer on Pasture 
Last Summer I put five head of yearl¬ 
ings out to iiasture, for which 1 paid 
the cash. When it came time to take 
them in, I could only identify fOiir ani¬ 
mals ; the fifth one I could not sweai* as 
mine, as the mark was gone. No one 
claimed this heifer. Who does she be¬ 
long to? The owner of the pasture 
would not advertise her and recently sold 
her. Can I collect anything? No agree¬ 
ment was made as to responsibility. The 
other four I had together up about the 
country. w. ii. w. 
New York. 
The owner of the pasture Is bound to 
use reasonable care in looking after the 
stock, and if you can show that he was 
negligent in leaving fences down or in 
other ways he is respon.?)We for the loss 
of the heifer. In other words, he got five 
head of stock and should have returned 
five. It is up to him to explain its ab¬ 
sence. Your having to hunt up the rest 
of the stock would tend to show his negli¬ 
gence. You are certainly more entitled 
to the pi^oceeds of the heifer he sold than 
he is. Yon should demand return of the 
heifer or payment for its loss. 
Taxation of Deeded Property 
Tn_ your answer to J. R., page 
the ^ act is that in 1917 the law again 
required that all property should be as¬ 
sessed in the tax district in which it lies. 
It also requires that the assessment roll 
shall show the school district in Avhich 
each piece of property is located. The 
town collector collects school taxes on all 
property embraced in the districts that 
have their schoolhonscs located in the 
town, regardless of the fact that some of 
the property may be in another town or 
county. There are exceptions, of course, 
for incorporated villages that have high 
.schools. While in the case in question 
as far as school tax is concerned, it will 
probably be all paid in one district, the 
town, county and State taxes will be 
paid m each county in which it is located, 
and if the Avhole property is assessed in 
one county they will be required to pay 
hack the amount that did not belong to 
them. p. G. R. 
Seneca, N. Y. 
Stallion Laws 
What are the stallion laws in this 
State in regard to collecting fees? One 
stallion owner claims that he is entitled 
to his full fee of .$11), even when mare 
failed to get with foal first time, because 
owner did not comply with law by return¬ 
ing mare twice more wfithin a reasonable 
time after first time. Another stallion 
owner states that the law says that owner 
of mare can return her at any tinu' with¬ 
in the year. C. G. S. 
N(‘w York. 
Reetion 129 of the Agricultural Law 
provides (hat after .Tanuary 1. 1917. no 
stallion shall be allowed to stand or he 
offered for service which is not en¬ 
rolled. * * * “and after such date 
no fees shall he collected for the services 
of such stallions”. If the stallion is not 
enrolled no fee whatever can he ooileeted. 
If he is enrolled the ainoniit of the 
owner's fee and what this shall cover 
would he subjects of contract between 
the parties; that is. the owner could 
charge whatever he chose for one service 
whether the mare came in foal or not. 
The owner of the mare could take her 
there or not as he saw fit. He does not 
have to use the stallion, but if he does 
and the stallion is enrolled, the owner of 
the mare must pay the charges of the 
stallion’s owner. 
Execution Against Wife’s Property 
My husband owns one-half of house oc¬ 
cupied by his mother, and one-third of 
house from which she draws the income. 
He wishes to buy a farm of 80 acres, .3.3 
on one side of road and 47 on other. I 
proposed to buy the .3.3 acres and have it 
deeded to me. I to pay in properties that 
I inherited from my people, and also pay 
enough down on 47 acres to cover stock 
and niachinery to work whole place, my 
husband giving a mortgage on balance. 
’Fho man tells us that will not secure me. 
as he can get a judgment against my 3,3 
acres if my husband fails to pay for his. 
Tan he do that in the State of Wisconsin? 
Mv husband’s property is all in another 
State. L. G. c. 
If yon do not go on the real property 
or chattel mortgage with your husband a 
creditor of his could not get judgment 
against your separate property, for in Wis¬ 
consin, as in many other States, any mar¬ 
ried woman may receive real or personal 
property from any person and hold it to 
her sole and .separate use, and conve* and 
devise it the same as if she were unmar¬ 
ried. So the man cannot get a judgment 
against your 33 acres. 
