Posted on 11/07/2005 3:18:31 PM PST by GreenFreeper
Well farmers were the original Conservationist, you know. It wasn't until the crazies started trying to stop us from growing anything but weeds that we started getting defensive.
Perhaps. Chanticleer was a rooster in a story by Geoffrey Chaucer -- The Nun's Priest's Tale.
It isn't really very fitting, as I am not a rooster but a hen, but our family symbol is the rooster, and I do so like the name.
"...and I do so like the name."
It is very pretty. :) I raise laying hens, though only a few end up with names if they have obvious personalities, or ended up bonded to me for some reason during the rearing process.
My rooster is "Rooster Cogburn" after John Wayne. ;)
The modern American farmer is now employing slash and burn techniques! ;-)
They burn off the the grasslands in western NoDak every spring.
This year, while in Central Kansas over the fourth of July weekend, I saw some farmers burning off their wheat stubble. First time I ever saw anything like that. You could watch clouds form over the fields, in a distance, from the heat
The farmers in my neck of the woods burned their plant beds thoroughly before putting the seed in. They then covered the beds with a white cloth (looked like cheese cloth) to prevent windblown seed from contaminating the beds.
It seemed to work pretty well. Of course, I'm remembering a long time ago and a long way away.
Nam Vet
You can make bourbon out of it, if you live in KY.
Anything else is just whiskey.
this has some promise. save oil and natural gas, grow more - the American farmer can be very productive.
Our kids hatched chicks for a 4-H project, and it was great fun. Unfortunately, our suburban neighborhood frowns on livestock, so we had to send them to the home of a friend who keeps chickens. :-(
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