. The lure of the land . st price: ergo, ours should be potted. Johnand I set to work, making the chickens scratching house our case of paper pots was to our hand; some earth from the hotbed andthe seedlings completed the outfit. John filled the pots, I set theplants, a whole day and they were not done yet; another half-day andwe had the beds capacity filled, 1,300 pots returned to the frame toawait warmer weather for transporting. We were rather proud ofthat bunch. For several days they were kept well watered, shadedand cool, until the fine roots should have gained a new foothold.
. The lure of the land . st price: ergo, ours should be potted. Johnand I set to work, making the chickens scratching house our case of paper pots was to our hand; some earth from the hotbed andthe seedlings completed the outfit. John filled the pots, I set theplants, a whole day and they were not done yet; another half-day andwe had the beds capacity filled, 1,300 pots returned to the frame toawait warmer weather for transporting. We were rather proud ofthat bunch. For several days they were kept well watered, shadedand cool, until the fine roots should have gained a new foothold. Cab-bage and cauliflower were thriving, though not to our liking, tomatoesneed heat, the others cold, so the latter were being somewhat coddled. April first and the barn not yet complete. There was only onething to do, coax Neighbor Robinson to rent us his team again untilwe could get our horses. On the 2nd plowing started on acres 1 and 2. Rye was 15 inches high when we beganto turn it under, and 39 inches at the finish. The rye was 15 inches high—alas for the prophets—and was beingturned under to do untold good. Fine roots of huckleberry and sweetfern still kept coming up and we knew the fight with them was des- 4« tined to be a long and hard one. The harrow gathered them up some-what, but still they were obstructionists. The annual forest fires started to the west of us; strenuous efforton the part of all the force of workmen saved that section of the Islandfrom again burning over; a second fire a few days later with a westerlywind met its own defeat against the fence of the cleared land of theExperimental Station.
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