. Uncle Abner's legacy. The brook broke through its icy covering [Page 136]. Ralph and Tom had labored in the fields FARMING IN EARNEST 155 How would you like to plow and harrow a farm ofseveral hundred acres ? None of it for me, declared Tom. This is allI want to handle. Eut they never plowed those bigfarms by hand, did they? Certainly they did, said Ralph. Althoughnowadays motors, traction engines and steam plowshave revolutionized the big wheat and corn farmsof the west and hand plowings a thing of the past. 1 Well, I m glad we didn t undertake to plant anymore than this, said Tom as he pic
. Uncle Abner's legacy. The brook broke through its icy covering [Page 136]. Ralph and Tom had labored in the fields FARMING IN EARNEST 155 How would you like to plow and harrow a farm ofseveral hundred acres ? None of it for me, declared Tom. This is allI want to handle. Eut they never plowed those bigfarms by hand, did they? Certainly they did, said Ralph. Althoughnowadays motors, traction engines and steam plowshave revolutionized the big wheat and corn farmsof the west and hand plowings a thing of the past. 1 Well, I m glad we didn t undertake to plant anymore than this, said Tom as he picked up the reinsand started across the field. Id have been dis-couraged before I began to plant. Spring is here, cried Kitty as Tom and Ralphdrove in from the fields one afternoon. I sawthree swallows to-day. And the fields all ready to plant, announcedTom. To-morrow we begin sowing the seeds andthen for farming in earnest. Five acres of the plowed land was reserved forpotatoes, two acres for corn and the remainder forthe market garden. Potatoes are one of the most profit
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