twenty-eight-acre

Updated: June 2, 2025

Three years of the hardest work; limestone on two forties, but only twenty acres of poor clover on one and no wheat seeded on the other. The neighbors "knew the clover would winter kill." The bills for pasturing amounted to as much as the butter had brought; for the twenty-eight-acre pasture had been very poor.

Cyril G. (Cyril George) Hopkins - The Story of the Soil; from the Basis of Absolute Science and Real Life,