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Spring was the hungry season, and the first food out of it grew by itself.
The cellar was spent, the garden was bare ground, and nothing planted that…
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Farmers built their own halls, with their own money, and held the deed.
A plain frame building with a meeting room, a kitchen and a stage, put…
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Drying is the only preservation method that needs nothing you have to buy.
Canning needs jars, lids, sugar and fuel. Salting needs salt. Cooling needs ice or a…
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It is bolted to a bench in a shed somewhere, or sitting in a flea market with a price tag on the hopper: a cast iron frame with…
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Go through census pages for American farm country before the middle of the twentieth century and you keep meeting her. A young woman, late teens or early twenties,…
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Before machinery, every ear of corn on an American farm was handled individually by a person.
A husker walked between the standing rows with a metal peg strapped…