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 
e 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, 
