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Posted by Matt on June 03, 2004 at 14:48:18 from (66.181.93.142):
Found this in an old book, thought it would be an interesting paragraph to share. Author was a UK farmer, talking about WWII: "Apart from 'blackout' petrol is our chief difficulty. The powers that be do not realize that intensive farming requires far more petrol than general extensive farming. What a wicked waste it is that one often has to keep a tractor running on paraffin when muck carting (we have six hundred loads a year) when a drop of petrol would start the tractor." Was an interesting read to me. Intensive, diversified farm (Dairy replacement, grain seed, sheep, pigs, poultry), they started re-building a run-down place around 1920 when he & his brother where in their late teens. Farming Ladder
by George Henderson
avaiable online at: http://www.soilandhealth.org/copyform.asp?bookcode=010145
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