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["Jeanne Driese" <jeanne13 AT earthlink.net>]

James that field looks awsome.  Who is at the horse's head?  Is that one of 
the kids?  I remember when your 4th one was born, how time flies!  I know you 
didn't eat 70 pounds of potates at one sitting, so when they have over 
wintered in the ground do they store well for any length of time?
Jeanne
tnhillwoman
North East TN zone 6
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  From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com 
  To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 8:36 PM
  Subject: [Homestead] Beer for my Horses


  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>
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