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David Bruce davidbruce at yadtel.net
Fri Sep 3 08:07:24 PDT 2010


Here a bit more than rolling and some spots require up and down rather 
than sidehill.  Most cultivated land is flat to rolling but ...
David
NW NC
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> I usually describe my farm as "gently rolling". I only have one small
> hill-side that is dangerously steep and I have placed it back into
> permanent pasture. Actually I let some of the local Scouts use it as a
> natural amphitheater about once a year. Back when it was part of a
> grain field I would always make sure I combined it with an empty grain
> tank. It still made me very nervous and even yet I am very cautious
> when mowing it.
> This farm used to be a lot rougher... It is absolutely amazing to me
> how much 60 years of constant tillage, especially using implements
> that dragged a lot of dirt along, have leveled it from what it was.
> When we first moved here every field was divided by at least one
> uncrossable gully. One then 20 acre field we had to farm in 3
> sections. My father and I worked very hard for many years dozing those
> in and having dirt that we could acquire for free hauled in to fill
> them. Each year we would plow dirt in toward them by plowing those
> areas on the contour. The county was beginning to pave all of the
> roads back then and they would cut out the ditches first to make the
> road a little wider. We got hundreds and hundreds of loads of that
> dirt.
> A few years ago I mentioned to a neighbor about how much the land had
> flattened here and he had also been thinking about it. He recalled
> that as a young boy there was a little hill / mound behind their barn
> and he liked riding their old horse up that mound. Kind of a "King of
> the hill" thing. :-) Now he cannot even find where that little hill
> was.
> This farm has kind of stabilized some now since I have a good bit of
> it in horse pastures and the guy that farms the grain fields mostly
> no-tills...
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