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Drive the older farm country of the Midwest and you keep passing them without knowing it: a row of scruffy, thorny, badly shaped trees running dead straight along…
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They sell for serious money now. A nineteenth-century American weather vane in copper - a horse, a cow, a rooster, an Indian, a locomotive, an arrow - is…
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Barbed wire looks like the least interesting thing on a farm, and it reorganised the use of an entire continent.
The problem it solved was weight. Across the…
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It went up in May and came down in September, and it was not furniture.
A hammock needed two trees of the right size at the right distance…
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A hole in the road with bars across it, and the cows will not cross.
A fence stops an animal and also stops a vehicle. A gate…
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A common fruit bush became illegal, and crews came and removed it.
Gooseberry and currant bushes grew at the edge of the garden on an enormous number…