CHAPTER XXVII 
WORK ON THE HOME FORTY 
Aprit and May made amends for the rudeness 
of March, and the ploughs were early afield. 
Thompson, Zeb, Johnson, and sometimes Ander- 
son, followed the furrows, first in 10 and 11, and 
lastly in 18. Number 9 had a fair clover sod, 
and was not disturbed. We ploughed in all 
about 114 acres, but we did not subsoil. We 
spent twenty days ploughing and as many more 
in fitting the ground for seed. The weather was 
unusually warm for the season, and there was 
plenty of rain. By the middle of May, oats 
were showing green in Nos. 8, 10, 11, 12, and 13, 
— sixty-two acres. The corn was well planted 
in 15 and the west three-quarters of 14,— eighty- 
two acres. The other ten acres in the young 
orchard was planted to fodder corn, sown in 
drills so that it could be cultivated in one 
direction. 
The ten-acre orchard on the south side of the 
home lot was used for potatoes, sugar beets, 
cabbages, turnips, etc., to furnish a winter supply 
of vegetables for the stock. 
The outlook for alfalfa was not bright. In 
the early spring we fertilized it again, using 
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