August 27, 1937 The Commonweal 419 BACK ON THE LAND By LEO L. WARD IF WE should walk out into the feed lots of Middle America, I think we should be greatly heartened by what the...
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THIS FARM QUESTION By LEO L. WARD Father Ward went back to the farm. He sensed once again the "human equation" that makes farming an adventure as well as a business-and an adventure, too, which...
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January 9, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 289 an infinite soul-seduction. We see that he was...
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NOT with the last melting drift, but with the final whack of Sed Bowman's hammer, would winter leave. Sed was the auctioneer. And his last sale, just before the spring work on the soil could...
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SINCE I was a boy who loved to burn things I have never known any pleasure to compare with the brushwood fire I used to build in the dusk of a November evening. I would always build my fire down...
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THE MELANCHOLY FARMER By LEO L. WARD PATIENCE, if we look at history, seems to be the agricultural virtue. The peasant always appears, with his oxen, a long-suffering gigantic figure of...
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