tv RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 12, 1921 
Do You Want More Profit 
from Your Herd? 
You can get more milk out of every cow you own—if—you' 11 put her in shape to give more. 
Modern dairymen acknowledge that health and cleanliness—comfort always and water when she wants it— 
are the things that add extra quarts to milk production from any cow. 
This is an old story to dairymen using Star Equipment, but it means more profit to the man whose barn is not 
" eood " his herd “STAR EQUIP” Your Barn 
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and add more as you add to your herd. 
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1 
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Narrows or widens stan¬ 
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Harvard, III. Albany, N. Y, 
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plln ’ I am thinking of REMODELING t,ara 
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I have 
..Cows_„T[orsei. 
Equipment 
Name_ 
I Address. 
The FREDERICK COUNTY Combination LIME and 
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Legal Questions 
Line Fence; Drainage Outlet 
1 I have for the last several years 
kept in repair a line fence which forms 
one side of mv pasture by furnishing now 
posts which have been broken off by 
heavy snow; also furnishing staples. Is 
it not possible for me to compel the 
owner of the adjoining property, who is 
a non-resident, to pay me for time in¬ 
volved in repairing this fence? 2. A cer¬ 
tain man owned a farm comprising 110 
acres, with complete farm buildings at¬ 
tached. He built a large new house near 
the site of the old buildings, which faced 
the main highway. The necessary cellar 
drain from the new house was led into 
the ditch of the highway. Later on he 
divided the one large farm into two 
smaller farms. The line fence dividing 
the two pieces of property passes over 
the one cellar drain of the new house,, 
making the outlet of the drain on the 
other property. Is it possible for the 
party owning the other property on which 
the outlet of drain flows to compel me to 
change my drain so that it will not have 
an outlet on his property, or to stop me 
from getting onto his property to repair 
drain, which sometimes becomes clogged 
at the outlet? a. ,t. s. 
New York. 
1. If you repaired the fence belonging 
to the adjoiuiug neighbor without his 
knowledge or consent you can only re¬ 
cover for your services. You should have 
taken the proper steps to compel the ad¬ 
joining owner to maintain his fence. 
2. The adjoining owner cannot compel 
you to remove the drain, but he might re¬ 
fuse to allow you to come on his prop¬ 
erty for the purpose of doing any work 
on the drain unless a reservation was 
(made in the deed. N. T. 
Legal Aspect of Increased Rent 
Does a landlord have the right to raise 
rent of tenant from $20 per month to 
$28 at one jump when tenant has rented 
place for more than a year and has paid 
rent in advance? Tenant is quiet and 
orderly in every way. Is there a new 
law as between landlord and tenant that 
would have a bearing upon this point if 
tenant should see fit to protest and carry 
it up? I understand landlord has been 
raised $000 on assessment on the prop¬ 
erty, which is a double bouse, tenant 
renting half (which half is five small 
rooms). Would this raise in assessment 
be sufficient reason for such a raise? In 
order to evict tenant does landlord have 
to serve written notice or is a verbal one 
sufficient in such a case? IIow long no¬ 
tice must a landlord give in New York 
jState? If tenant seees fit to carry this 
to court would landlord have to give rea¬ 
son for raising rent? F. G. L. 
New York. 
The new law to which you refer applies 
| only to a city of the first class or a city 
I in a county adjoining a city of the first 
class. In the city and county above men¬ 
tioned the new law provides that the 
rent must not be increased more than 
2-~> per cent over the rent as it existed 
one year prior thereto. This does not 
apply to the city in question. Where 
there is default in the payment of rent 
Hie landlord may evict the tenant b.v 
three days’ notice in writing. If the ten¬ 
ant is a tenant at will or sufferance a 30 
days’ notice in writing must be given on 
behalf of the landlord. N. T. 
Cancellation of Sale 
A. who lives in one town, buys non- 
perishable goods from B, who lives in 
another place, for $000. A pays B $200 
on account, with directions to B to send 
.goods C. O. D. by express. When goods 
I arrive A receives notice from the express 
company, with statement of O. D. and 
charges due. A goes to pay it. but loses 
j the money on the way, and then notifies 
the shipper that he cannot take the goods 
and that B would have to recall them. 
The goods are returned after 30 days to 
shipper’s premises, who signs for their 
receipt and pays the express company 
$44 for transportation both ways out of 
A’s deposit of $200. The question arises 
how much more than transportation cost 
can II deduct or claim of the money paid 
him by A in advance. A assumes that 
since the goods were not delivered to 
him there was no exchange of value and 
therefore no sale, and consequently B 
has no legal claim to A’s money except 
to deduct the amount he paid for trans¬ 
portation. The order was solicited by 
mail and in case B fails to return A’s 
balance do you think that the Post Office 
Department would look into the matter? 
New York. G. F. M. 
In the absence of an agreement on the 
part of B to refund the money A can¬ 
not recover his $200. B made a fair sale 
to A, and apparently stands ready to de¬ 
liver the goods at any time that A pays 
the balance of the purchase price. There 
is no claim that the goods were not as 
represented, and B is not to blame for 
A’s having lost his money on the way to 
the station. It is very possible that B 
may have lost a sale of the article pur¬ 
chased by A through failure of A to ac¬ 
cept, and he may withhold, besides his 
actual expenses, enough to make good his 
damage. The Post Office has nothing to 
do with the matter and your remedy, if 
any, is by civil action. N.T„ 
