Identifier: lureofland00full (find matches)
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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Home-hamper fillers On the eighteenth Dynamiter Kissam came again, for it had beendecided to clear the remainder of the dairy. We had proof enough ofthe utter futility of the ancient method. The Dynamiters appearance 85 A beauty blow
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and trunk split AGRICULTURAL DYNAMITING 86 necessitated Italian help for him. The sprouts had grown so vigorous-ly during the summer, one would not have dreamed the land had beenburned over last Fall. Then, too, manure for the dairy and farm wascoming, as at this time of year it could be purchased at sixty centsa ton. This, of course, had to be unloaded. Mike succeeded in get-ting two Italians who proved on their arrival not to be agriculturistsbut Neapolitans. They marched up to our wash-stand by the tower,helped themselves to a glass of water and proceeded to ThanksgivingCottage for dinner. Lime for Fall use had arrivied, and they were first set to unloadingit and protecting it from rain storms; then into the dairy to pile stumps

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