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Updated: May 16, 2025
She thought with horror of the probability of marrying a maker of plows or of some other dull necessity of life and then spending her days in the making of stockings for babies that did not come, or in some other equally futile manifestation of her dissatisfaction.
One of the most successful tomato growers I know of, whose soil is a rich, dark clay loam, prepares for the crop, as follows: Very late in the fall or early in the spring he gives a clover sod a heavy dressing of manure and plows it under. In the spring he prepares the ground by frequent cultivation and plants it with early sweet corn or summer squash.
I was up with the summer sun and had bathed, shaved, and eaten long before the city showed any sign of activity around the harbor. "You'll like Panama," Yeager assured me after he had clambered aboard. "It's a city of madmen, plumb daffy about the big ditch. The men can't talk anything but cuts, dams, cubic feet, steam plows, and earth slides.
Where the land is level the farms can be laid out on a general plan that will admit of the use of steam plows to reduce the cost of plowing, save hard labor, and reduce the number of work animals. Among the multitude of advantages the individual would have in these communities, social, educational, and economic, health and physical development appear as not the least.
The peasants generally own their own farms, which are small, and cut up into patches of pasture, grain-lands, and tracts of forest. Even the most unpromising nooks among the rocks, in many parts of the Gudbransdalen Valley, where plows are wholly unavailable, are rooted up by means of hoes, and planted with oats and other grain.
When a local rival fitted out a plow with a leather pocket tacked on to his plow-beam, and offered to give a paddle with every plow, James Oliver laughed aloud. "I give no paddles, because I do not believe in them, either for punishment or plow use my plows and my children do not need paddles," was his remark. The one particular thing the Big Idea in the Oliver Plow was the chilled moldboard.
Whether this was absolutely true is not for us to question; perhaps a little egotism in a man of this character should be allowable. Cast-iron plows, as well as the steel plows of that date, were very heavy, wore out rapidly the metal being soft and didn't "scour," except in the purer sands and gravels.
But there were the claims of the Happy Family and all the grassland east of there which must be saved. Men drove their work horses at a gallop after plows, and when they had brought them they lashed the horses into a trot while they plowed crooked furrows in the sun-baked prairie sod, just over the eastern rim of Antelope Coulee.
"'There's a dispersal sale to-morrow at the Goodloe farm, says Peewee. ''N' I hear there's some real nice stuff going under the hammer. General Goodloe croaked this spring. They cleaned him in a cotton deal last year 'n' now their goin' to sell the whole works studs, brood mares, colts everything; plows, too you want a plow? All you need is a plow 'n' a mule to put you where you belong.
"The Kaws didn't do this killin'. This band of Pawnees was away down below their range. The Kaws said they was comin' fer a peace council, to git the Kaws an' Otoes to raise against us whites, comin' put so many, with plows and womernfolks they savvy. Well, the Kaws has showed the Pawnees. The Pawnees has showed us."
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