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Should your soil be new, perhaps a piece of wild forest land, have it carefully grubbed, and every tree and stump taken out by the roots. After the ground is cleared take a large breaking-plough, with three yoke of sturdy oxen, and plough as deep as you can, say twelve to fourteen inches.
Then, having drawn an imaginary line from the stake to that which was set in the southwest corner, the tall Charlie standing where he could he used as a sign for said landmark, his father and his uncle, assisted by Younkins, and followed by the two other boys, set the big breaking-plough as near that line as possible. The four yoke of oxen stood obediently in line. Mr.
The party had laid in a stock of groceries coffee, tea, and other articles of that description before leaving home. Now they needed staple provisions, a few farming tools, a breaking-plough, and some seed corn.
The boys looked curiously at the big breaking-plough that was to be of so much consequence to them in their new life and labors. The prairies around their Illinois home had been long broken up when they were old enough to take notice of such things; and as they were town boys, they had never had their attention called to the implements of a prairie farm.
The Crops Doing Chores The Sights and Sounds of Winter Road-making The Spirit-rapping Craze Tuberculosis among the Settlers A Cruel Brother The Rights of the Indians Put to the Plough at the Age of Twelve In the Harvest-Field Over-Industry among the Settlers Running the Breaking-Plough Digging a Well Choke-Damp Lining Bees.
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