Completion, gathering and sale of crops commenced by decedent.

Any crop commenced by a decedent may be completed and gathered by the executor or administrator, and, the expenses of the plantation being deducted therefrom, is assets in his hands, and may be sold by him at private sale, either in or out of the state.

(Code 1852, §§1750, 1901; Code 1867, §§2073, 2261, 2262; Code 1876, §§2439, 2440, 2441; Code 1886, §2098; Code 1896, §150; Code 1907, §2614; Code 1923, §5841; Code 1940, T. 61, §236.)