HOUSE-CLEANING 59 



Judson, the man with the buggy, reported at 

 noon. He came with bag and baggage, but not 

 with buggy, and said that he came to stay. 



" Thompson," said I, you are to put Judson 

 in charge of the roan team to follow the boys 

 when they are far enough ahead of him. In the 

 meantime he and the team will be with you and 

 Johnson in this house-cleaning. By to-morrow 

 night Anderson and the new team will get in, 

 and they, too, will help on this job. I want you 

 to take personal charge of the gray team, 

 neither Johnson nor Anderson is the right sort 

 to handle horses. The new team will do the 

 trucking about and the regular farm work, while 

 the other three are kept steadily at the ploughs 

 and harrows." 



The cleaning of the north forty proved a long 

 job. Four men and two teams worked hard for 

 ten days, and then it was not finished. By that 

 time the ploughmen had finished 6 and 7, and 

 were ready to begin on No. 1. Judson, with 

 the roans and harrows, was sent to the twenty 

 acres of ploughed ground, and Zeb and his team 

 were put at the cleaning for three days, while 

 Sam ploughed the six acres of old orchard with 

 a shallow-set plough. The feeding roots of these 

 trees would have been seriously injured if we had 

 followed the deep ploughing practised in the 

 open. By August 24 about two hundred loads 

 of manure from the barn-yards, the accumulation 

 of years, had been spread under the apple trees, 



