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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

I am one tired puppy tonight!  They are calling for more blessed rain within 
48 hours, it's suppoed to be 3 more inches and we could still use it.  But 
it's time to plant potatoes and the hard corn will not be far behind.

So today we plowed the garden where plots of potatoes and hard corn are 
rotated each year, it's about 1/5 an acre but  big Duke, the biodesiel, was 
out of 
shape from a winter of relative idleness.

The old saw goes:

Six by nine, straight as a line, eleven miles per acre.
One acre for each horse each day is their full fill of labor.

All three of us had to take it much easier than that but in one afternoon we 
got the ground ready for disking.  Which see:

www.geocities.com/one7thfarmer/plowing.jpg

We also unearthed about 70 lbs of potatoes missed in the winter digging and 
we had a great heap of French fries for supper.

That, and as the country song goes .... Whiskey for my men, beer for my 
horses.


"He who by the plow would thrive,
 Himself must either lead or drive."
   (Benjamin Franklin)   </HTML>