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...week's end, the students' pleas had worked again. Sproul was staying on: "I believe this is a straight furrow. ... I shall not take my hand from the plow to which it has been set for the past 17 years...
Augustus B. Longstreet (Georgia Scenes) on hoss-swapping in the 1830s ("Why, man, do you bring such a hoss as that to trade? . . . Well, anyhow, let me look at him. Maybe he'll do to plow...
...Hannes Schneider's Arlberg technique of controlled skiing (by which skiers learn to put on the brakes) which did most to tell U.S. beginners how to ski. Its basis, as with all controlled skiing, is the fundamental snow-plow (knees bent, body tilted forward, ski tips pointed inward like an inverted V). In about five weeks, the average student can learn to ride downhill without wrapping himself around a tree...
...four more years Elyniak worked for farmers at Gretna, drew $80 a year plus 80 bu. of wheat and 40 bu. of barley. He bought a team of oxen, two cows, 30 chickens, a wagon and a plow, shipped them west to Edmonton in a freight car, then drove another 50 miles east to Chipman. There he settled with other Ukrainians, raised three sons and four daughters. The homesteading was rough, but not as hard as in the Ukraine...
...help came from K-F. Under a plan which Graham stockholders are expected to approve, K-F will take over Graham's bonded indebtedness, most of its assets and its automaking (i.e., production of the Frazer). Graham will make only Rototillers (combination plow-harrows), and distribute other farm equipment...