Prose (10 pages) found in the Ohl Family Collection, written after 1860.
Acquisition
Accession
2016.3
Source or Donor
Ohl Family
Acquisition Method
Gift
Transcription
When the farms we now (ocupy) were
first tilled they were rich in all
theelements of plant food.
The decayed trees, leaves, and under
(groth) of heavy
forest (______)
by the ashes left from the burning
of hundreds of cords of wood to the acre
had not only left a deep covering of
natural fertility but a loose loam
soil full of humus and natural
warmth.
A soil ready to give life and strength
to the young plant that grew rapidly and
strong without filling the ground or
cultivating the growing plant.
The thought of the Pioneer farmers was
not what (shal) we (suply) humus but
how (shal) we dig up the earth and
plant the seed among the roots and stumps. It was not what kind of
cultivator(shal) we use for they
ends abruptly
on side of pag was written "did not_____"
