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Title: The lure of the land
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Fullerton, Edith Loring, 1876-1931 Long Island Railroad Company. Experimental Station, Wading River, N.Y
Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: (New York?
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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The rye was 15 inches high—alas for the prophets—and was beingturned under to do untold good. Fine roots of huckleberry and sweetfern still kept coming up and we knew the fight with them was des- 4« tined to be a long and hard one. The harrow gathered them up some-what, but still they were obstructionists. The annual forest fires started to the west of us; strenuous efforton the part of all the force of workmen saved that section of the Islandfrom again burning over; a second fire a few days later with a westerlywind met its own defeat against the fence of the cleared land of theExperimental Station.
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The forest fire meets civilization and defeat By the end of the first week in April work was swinging at arapid pace, land was being plowed as fast as possible, the stable nearlycomplete, so that on the 7th the two condemned express horses (con-demned because their feet were worn out by city pavements and forno other reason) arrived. Great big beautiful fellows, one a gray witha little Percheron in him immediately named Buckeye, while theother, a Roman-nosed buckskin, received the name Texas, in recog-nition of his ancestry. Horse and hand implements were being assembled, these consistedof Planet Jr. one horse cultivator, horse leveler, hand drills, hand cul-tivators, a roller and a plow. 47

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