1378 
December 14, 191S 
Legal Questions 
Sale of Cow 
A agrees to sell a cow to B for $75, B 
paying $-0 at time agreement is made, B 
Raying he will take cow away within one 
week. B does not come for cow till two 
weeks and two days. After making agree¬ 
ment, A holds cow two weeks for B and 
then sells cow to C. What can B_do to 
A, if anything, and does B forfeit the 
$20? w. H. M. 
New York. 
Ordfnarily this difference of nine daya 
would not make any difference in the con¬ 
tract, or at most would only make B 
liable for its keep for the nine days, but 
the parties could make the understanding 
that the cow would be taken within a 
weekla condition of the contract, on the 
breach of which the whole contract would 
be void. It depends on what the partiea 
intended. For instance, if B said “Oh, 
I’ll be over for it in a week or so,’’ a few 
days one way or the other would^ make no 
difference. On the other hand, if A said 
“Now I am only selling this cow because I 
can’t keep it and you must take it within 
a week, or I must dispose of it elsewhere,’’ 
and B actiuiesced, then A could sell it 
again, but he must return B’s money to 
him. In the case you give B should get 
his money back at least. 
Damage by Trespassing Animals 
Between my farm and our neighbor’s is 
only a stone wall from the road back 
quite a way, not very high, but have had 
no trouble of cattle or horses ever going 
over it. We also have grain and corn on 
the other side of the road on another 
neighbor’s this year. Since haying the 
first neighbor has turned calves and horses 
in his fields, and they went across in our 
grain, and ruined a lot. I have chased 
them out over 25 times. Then the calves 
went up the road, then came in on our 
land and got in my pole beans and in my 
back garden. We drove them home and 
that night they never got them in and 
they came back and stripped most of my 
beans, eating over % bushel. The next 
day I went away to work out, and I came 
home to find calves in my garden again. 
We caught one and tied it up. The day 
before this I showed their owner what 
they had done, and he did not say much; 
then the next day he let them out again 
and went away from home part of the 
dav; he also knew I wms away. When on 
that day I caught the calf I went to his 
house and told him where the calf was, 
and he could have it by paying damage, 
$5, for they ate over one-half bushel of 
beans. Now these calves have run in our 
grain for a month or more. Neighbor 
says he could compel us to put a line 
fence, and as there was only a stone wall 
we could not hold calf or collect damage. 
Now I know these calves never once came 
over wall, but they came around in the 
road. These beans were^ my own, which 
I was raising for the fairs; I have over 
45 kinds. There is not even one of lots 
of the kinds. What can I do, and w’hat 
is neighbor supposed to do? This line 
fence has bushes (small! all along, al^ 
some rails on rocks, and is three feet in 
height in places, I think. M. C. w. 
Maine. 
There appears to be no question of line 
fences involved. If the stock had come 
over the fence it would be a different mat¬ 
ter. When your neighbor’s cattle come 
on to your land from the road and do 
damage' he is bound to pay for it. Under 
the circumstances as you put them he 
must compensate you for all the damage 
done. There would be no question of his 
liability if his cattle went a mile down 
the road and destroyed a farmer’s crops, 
and the rule is no different because they 
went next door. They have no business 
on the highway unattended. To bring 
the matter to a head you should first give 
him written notice that if his cattle do 
any more damage you will lock them up 
and only release them on payment of all 
damage to date. If he claims the trouble 
is due to a faulty line fence you must both 
. fix it, each taking half. Any dispute over 
the portion each must repair must be 
settled by the town fence viewers. This 
is a case, like almost every question, 
which should be tried to be settled in a 
friendly way. This is the cheapest, best 
and quickest. If it cannot be. then give 
him the written notice and push him hard. 
Sheep-Tight Fences 
Will you inform S. of Otsego County, 
New York, that I have written one As¬ 
semblyman, the Hon. Bert Lord, in re¬ 
gard to the sheep-fence law and sent him 
a copy of the article mentioned in The 
R. N.-Y^.? I have a cousin living in a 
town in this State where a large number 
of farmers keep sheep. When he wants 
to pasture his sheep on land adjoining one 
of his neighbors, he informs his neighbor, 
who puts up a sheep-tight fence. I won¬ 
der if a court there would decide that a 
fence must be sheep-tight? My husband 
and I would like to keep sheep, but we do 
not care to do our neighbor.s’ fencing. 
Few sheep are kept around here, and it 
probably would be difficult to create an 
interest in this matter. G. M. s. B. 
Chenango Co., N. Y. 
You will find that the enforcement of 
any law will depend largely upon local 
CAe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
public sentiment. "Where all are inter¬ 
ested in sheep, all see the need of fences 
and can agree. Where there are few 
sheep other stockmen are not interested. 
Countrywide Produce Conditions 
SUPPLIES ARE I.IGITTER AND PRICES SHOW 
IMPROVING TENDENCY. 
Fruits and vegetables are now on the 
early Winter basis. Harvesting is over 
in most sections and shipments are chiefly 
from storage. Most lines moving now 
are not quickly perishable and volume is 
of limited amount, about 1,500 cars per 
day, and movement is fairly steady from 
week to week. 
FAIRLY STEADY, UNIFORM VALUES. 
Accordingly prices tend to settle and 
remain fairly steady. Likewise, prices 
tend to equalize somewhat in the various 
parts of the country. With potatoes, for 
instance, there is only about GO cents 
difference in prices per 100 lbs. sacked 
stock, f. o. b. shipping points in produc¬ 
ing sections from California to Maine, 
ranging altogether .$1.40 to $2.05. Sacked 
onions vary only 25 cents, selling $1.25 
per 100 lbs. f. o. b. California and $1.50 
f. o. b. New York and New England 
shipping points. This uniformity is 
much more noticeable since the Govern¬ 
ment’s telegraphic reports of marketing 
prices and conditions have been published 
daily in leading market centers, keeping 
holders and buyer.s everywhere in touch 
with current value elsewhere. The few 
.special influences now affecting the mar¬ 
kets include moderate shortage of cars 
in some sections and the checking of Gov¬ 
ernment purcha.ses for the Army on ac¬ 
count of the change in the wmr situation. 
GOVERNMENT BUYING FOR EXPORT. 
On the other hand, there is the open¬ 
ing of a great export demand for a few 
lines. The U. S. Grain Corporation has 
already bought six to seven million boxes 
of beans, which will go to only three 
dozen or so of the countries that are 
short of food supply, yet these purchases 
already equal ln.st year’s Government 
taking of beans for resale in their home 
markets. Prices are about one cent a 
potind lower this year, owing chiefly to 
competition of Asiatic beans at low 
prices. The Grain (Corporation paid 7 
cents f. o. b. shii>ping point for Western 
colored beans and around 9 cents for 
Eastern and Western white beans. Indi¬ 
cations are that still more white beans 
will be exported. The Grain Corporation 
is doing it all now, but will permit other 
exporters to operate under its super¬ 
vision. 
CABBAGES MAKE SHARP ADVANCE. 
Nearly all lines have been holding their 
own lately. Apples, cabbage, celery and 
cranberries have advanced. The most 
direct gain is in cabbage, which jumped 
from $13 to exceeding $20 per ton bulk 
in New York and Wisconsin shipping 
sections and reached $20 to $28 per ton 
in leading cities. The cause is probably 
a rapid falling off in supplies. The ship¬ 
ments declined about one-half in a single 
week. Prices are still well below those 
prevailing in December of last year. 
GOOD BUnNG irELPS APPLE VALUES. 
The advance in barreled apples has 
been .slow but steady, gaining about $1 
altogether. Western New Y'ork Baldwins 
started at about $4.25 to $4.50 for best 
grades in shipping sections and are now 
selling mostly at $5 to $5.50, and ranging 
somewhat higher in large city markets. 
Stock from cold storage reached $6. It 
w'as a big year for the New York apple 
country, which had the only big crop of 
the year. We.stern boxed apples net 
growers $1.50 to $2 per 40-pound 1k)X for 
the best .stock. At .$1.75, allowing three 
boxes to the barrel, the value would be 
$5.25, or about the same as for choice 
Baldwins in the producing sections. The 
market situation appears very firm, fruit 
of all kinds selling well, and the outlook 
for apples seems vei-y good. 
BEANS FAIRLY STEADY. 
Onions range about steady in city mar¬ 
kets from $1.25 to $1.75 per 100 lbs.; 
Rome markets reach lower prices, down 
to $1, and some exceed $2, but the range 
given fairly represents value of fair to 
good solid yellow stock. 
MTiite beans bring about $8 per 100 
lbs. in the Eastern producing sections, 
and $10 to $10.50 in city markets. The 
Eastern shipping season was late, but 
movement is now active. The bean crop 
of each of the past two years has been 
fully 50 per cent larger than the crop of 
the years preceding 1915-16, but the out¬ 
look is favorable on account of the suit¬ 
ability of beans for supplying cheap and 
nutritiouR food to hungry Europe. 
ROOT CROPS SLOW OF SALE. 
What to do with the miscellaneous 
root crops is always a problem whenever 
potatoes are in full supply. Reports from 
the chief producing sections in Canada, 
Minnesota, Wisconsin, New York, Colo¬ 
rado and California indicate but little 
demand for carlots for shipment. _ Prices 
have been low, ranging in producing sec¬ 
tions GO to 70 cents f. o. b. per 100 lbs. 
for carrots and rutabagas, and 50 to GO 
cents for Globe turnips. City wholesale 
markets quoted $1.25 to $1.75 for ruta¬ 
bagas, $1.25 for Globes, and $1 to $1.40 
for carrots, although higher prices were 
reached in various Southern markets, 
where sales are few and in small lots, 
and also prices varied in mid-Western 
markets, where local supplies are heavy. 
SouthweRtern markets are supplied chief¬ 
ly from California and Colorado. In 
Eastern and Southern markets the tur¬ 
nips are considered be.st for quality and 
long keeping from Canada and the north 
central States. Of the 428 cars of car¬ 
rots shipped this season, 271 started in 
New York State and GO from California. 
Of rutabagas, Minnesota shipped 12 cars 
and Wisconsin 13. Canada shipped 40 
cars of turnipR; New York, 19; New 
.Jersey, 15; Indiana, 12, and Washing¬ 
ton, 11. In some sections turnips of 
common grades may be had at prices 
tempting to stock feeders, considering the 
pre.sent cost of grain and fodder, turnips 
at $4 to $4.50 per ton. Carrots at about 
the same price, but a little higher, are 
useful in moderate amount for horse feed 
and are pronounced about equal to silage 
as a milk producer. Use not over half 
a peck per day at the start. The demand 
for root crops for human food is likely 
to increase when cold weather sets in. 
G. B. F, 
Buffalo Markets 
The arrival of real Winter shows the 
markets pretty well stocked, with most 
vegetables rather low in price. Butter 
and eggs rise steadily, and poultry is 
high. A big decline in oranges and 
lemons has taken place. The potato 
market is steady at about former prices, 
90c to $1.20 per bu. for whites and .$2..50 
to $3 per hamper for sweets. Apples run 
from 40c per bu. for windfalls to $2 per 
bu. for fancy. The supply is good. Other 
tree fruits are past season. Beans are 
as strong as ever at $6.G0 to $7.80 per 
bu., but onions are plenty at GO to 90c 
per bu. Great crops of them have bfrn 
raised on reclaimed marsh lands in 
Western New York. 
The vegetable market i.s firm with fair 
demand, the long, growing Fall making 
many hardy plants much more plenty 
than would have otherwise been. For 
instance. Brussels sprouts, always late to 
mature here, retail as low as 1.5c per qt. 
Cabbage wholesales at $3..50 to $5 per 
100; green and wax beans, ,$2.50 to $3.50 
per hamper; carrots at 50 to 75c; cauli¬ 
flower at $1.50 to .$2.2.5; parsnips at 
$1.2.5 to $1..50; spinach, 50 to GOe; tur¬ 
nips, ,50 to GOc; for white and yellow, GO 
to 70c; beets, 7.5c to $1 ; all per bu. 
These are low prices. Ivettuce is also 
low at 7.5c to $1.50 per 2-doz. box; en¬ 
dive, 12 to 1.5c per lb., and celery cab¬ 
bage, a fine lettuce substitute, sells for 
10c at retail per 2-lb. head. Winter 
squash is only $1.2.5 or .$2 per 100 lbs. 
Only cucumbers, at $3 per doz., and to¬ 
matoes, at 25 to 30c per lb., all hothouse," 
are high. 
Butter Ir up to G4 to GOc for creamery; 
for dairy, .59 to 61c; 52 to 62c for 
crocks, and 46 to 48o for common. 
Cheese is firmer at .36 to 37c for 
fancy; 42 to 44c for brick, and 34 to .3Gc 
for limburger. Eggs are higher, at 7.5 to 
88c for hennery; 69 to 70c for candled, 
and .51c for storage. The Pall has been 
favorable to egg production, so the stor¬ 
age reserves mu.st be small. 
Fancy and Southern fruits are mostly 
lower, Florida oranges being down to 
$5.50 to $7; lemons, California. .$5 to 
$5.50, and grapefruit, $2.50 to $5.50, all 
per box. Limes are .$1 to $1.25 per 100. 
Cranberries are high, but dull at $10 to 
$12 per barrel. 
Hay has taken a recent jump to $31 
for best Timothy, with .$2G for No. 3. 
baled, on track, although it appears to be 
plenty here. 
Poultry in light offering, with dressed 
in better demand than live. Frozen is 
not now quoted. Dressed turkey is 43 
to 45c; fowl, 30 to ,3Gc; roasting 
chickens, 33 to 3Gc; old roosters, 27 
to 28c; ducks, 38 to 40c; geese, .30 to 
32c. Dressed poultry is .3 to 5c higher 
than live. Rabbits are firm at 60 to 75c 
for cottontails and $1.25 to $1.50 for 
jacks, per pair. J. W. c. 
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