[AT] On losing farm land

[carl gogol]

In my youth we had good friends that lived north of Herkimer, NY and
although we had what I previously thought was stony soil up on the southern
rim of the Mohawk Valley - I was floored when we visited once and the whole
family was out picking stone off of a small plot near the barn.  It was if
they had just dug the most prolific crop of potatoes ever harvested - but
they weren't in rows.  It was their stone crop and this was their second
picking- done after second pass harrowing.  I don't know how they managed to
plant anything without ruining their machinery.  I had a whole different
level of appreciation for what stony land was after that!
Carl Gogol
Manlius, NY
(2) AC D-14, AC 914H
Simplicity 3112 & 7116
Kubota F-2400
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cecil E Monson" <cmonson at hvc.rr.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] On losing farm land


> > I put a new veggie garden in thie year. I put it in an area that was
>
> theoritically clear of stones but my 15' X 25' garden yielded a pile of
>
> stones 15' long by 3' high and maybe 4' deep.  A few were too large for
>
> me to extract with the plow or my large steel pry bars.... They say I
>
> live at the endpoint of the last ice age, so all of the stone was dumped
>
> off in this region.
> >
> > Rob Gray
> > NE PA
>
> If you find any that look like they came from here, you don't
> have to ask if we want them back. You can have them.  ;-)
>
> I'm hoping to have a look at Galway Bay and see what Larry is
> talking about this fall. We have reservations and hope to go. Flying
> in to Dublin and coming back out of Shannon which is just south of
> Galway. I doubt their rocks are much worse than we have on some of our
> property though, Larry. We have lots of places it would be hard to get
> a steel fence post in the ground. One thing about rocks, the old timers
> used to say it takes rocks to grow nice potatoes. No wonder the Irish
> depend on potatoes - they don't have any choice.
>
> Cecil
>
> -- 
> The nicest thing about telling the truth is you never have to wonder
> what you said.
>
> Cecil E Monson
> Lucille Hand-Monson
> Mountainville, New York   Just a little east of the North Pole
>
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>
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