Word: ploughed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first crop in is oats. Oats cannot tolerate hot weather. As fast as the ground dries in March, it must be ploughed-usually in a race between rains. Up at 4 or half-past, Dale Kuester turns on the lights of his Massey-Harris "101" Senior tractor, rockets out to the gang plough and buzzes off for a working day that often ends, as it began, in darkness. Last March Dale Kuester ploughed 20 acres of oat land in 18 hours-something like making a 500-mile automobile trip in ten hours. By the second week in April the Kuesters...
After the oats are in, there is time out for the farrowing. Then it is high time to plough for corn. On the Kuester farm every kernel of corn is used for feed. Of the thousands of bushels he has grown over the years, Gus claims that he has marketed not more than 150 bushels. He has sometimes had to buy more corn...
With three horses, a 14-in. plough, an ingrained fear of debt, and an ingrained faith in God, old Christopher's son Charles began to break the tough prairie sod for his well-to-do neighbors. In time he became such an artist with the plough that he earned as much as $1 an acre. When not ploughing, Charles Kuester worked out for $15 a month in summer, for his board & keep in the stiff Iowa winters. Before he had saved enough to buy land, he married. By the time Gus, his seventh child, was born (1888), Charles...
Died. Alfred G. Gardiner, 80, author of trenchant political analyses and humorous homilies (under the pen name: "Alpha of the Plough"), longtime editor of London's now-defunct Daily News; at Princes Risborough, England...
Readers of his autobiographical Plough man of the Moon may be surprised to learn that Rhymester Service was once a Scottish bank clerk. Born in Lancashire, England, he was brought up in Scotland by his grandfather and three Bible-addicted spinster aunts...