Word: sowing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...owners of fields had no legal right to them except during the periods when crops were being raised and harvested. The rest of the time, the field was common property, and anyone might pasture cattle upon it. An owner could not sow his soil oftener than once in three years. No pasture land could be ploughed because by so doing it was ruined as pasture land. Cattle lived but did not prosper under this system...
...Peabody conducted the services in Appleton Chapel last night. After anthems by the choir and prayer, Dr. Peabody read the scripture lesson from the thirteenth chapter of St. Matthew, and chose as the text for his sermon the third verse of this chapter: "Behold, a sower went forth to sow...