. The lure of the land; the history of a market-garden and dairy plot developed within eight months upon Long island's idle territory . n the heavy sandy roads of the little used territory lying be-tween the farms and showed characteristics which soon gave it the name MudTurtle. A beautiful road mare, promptly named Pomona, took its place;she covers the distance, which is very hilly, in about two hours. Henry Knight, who was the senior worker on the farm, was promoted to fore-man. He shrank nuich from the responsibility, coupled with the fact that thefarm was in such dreadful shape, but we urg
. The lure of the land; the history of a market-garden and dairy plot developed within eight months upon Long island's idle territory . n the heavy sandy roads of the little used territory lying be-tween the farms and showed characteristics which soon gave it the name MudTurtle. A beautiful road mare, promptly named Pomona, took its place;she covers the distance, which is very hilly, in about two hours. Henry Knight, who was the senior worker on the farm, was promoted to fore-man. He shrank nuich from the responsibility, coupled with the fact that thefarm was in such dreadful shape, but we urged and supported him and he is makinggood at every point. Trappier next showed signs of mutiny. One cow had been placed in the dyna-mite shed which had been moved near the barn. A second cow was purchasedwhen a neighbor, whose son met a tragic death, came and told us that she mustget away to recover her balance and could not leave the cow with her old father. We held council. What shall we do? Neither of us is cow-wise and we may get dreadfullystuck. I am willing to take the risk if you are for the sake of this poor creature. 137. o o CO If the cow is no good we can sell her for beef and you and I will be out of pocketbut the farm will not suffer. Ill go you, was the reply. So Sandy became one of the community, and the following Sunday gave usa daughter Sunday. Sandy is all right and is a better milk and butter producerthan Wynde who is a registered Guernsey. Trappier was given charge of the cows, chickens and pigs. He was the mostpessimistic human being I have ever met. Being an anarchist he was of course anatheist, therefore there was no meum and teum to him. The same lawlessnesswas instilled into the children, but as little ones are quick to follow the leaderthey became tractable and lovable while we were at the farm. As soon as we leftthey reverted. Many times we asked Henry if we should let Trappier go, and each time hewished to give him another trial. Finally rank mutiny
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