Betty B.
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first heard Jul 2026
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The waste of our fence corners with the unused space on each side is eliminated.
I believe that if France had the land of our fence corners, she would raise enough from it to pay 5% annually on the vast amount she owes us.
Even the roadways are made to yield money.
There are no brush nor weeds lining the highways.
There are no cattle running at large.
The grass beside the roads is cut with a scythe and used for feed.
and nearly every road grows trees of one kind or another, each of which is made to earn its own living.
End of chapter 3 Chapter 4 of France to Scandinavia by Frank G. Carpenter This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
Recording by Betty B. Through Normandy by Motorcar
Our trip from the Channel to Paris is taken while the harvest is ripening.
Most of the way is through Normandy, a land given up to meadows, grain, fruit, and stock raising.
The country is one crazy quilt of agricultural riches, the patches of which are sewed together with hedges of the greenest of green.
The patches are represented by wheat, oats, hay, and alfalfa, which are interspersed with orchards and truck gardens near the big towns.
The fields are clean except for the bright red poppies
showing here and there out of the green there is no wasteland anywhere the soil has been tickled and it laughs with the harvest here they are cutting the hay using great scythes as in the days of our forefathers they load the hay into carts drawn by huge norman horses or put it up in symmetrical cocks that are twice as tall as those of our farmers and will surely shed rain i notice especially the cattle and the sheep they pepper the meadows with white and black spots
growing smaller and smaller as they near the horizon.
Normandy is one of the best cattle regions of France.
From its milk comes the camembert cheese, and the province is a big dairy for both Paris and London.
As I look, I am reminded that France is now raising enough meat to feed almost her whole people.
I see fine oxen hauling carts over the roads, and am told that Brittany has record cows which produce from five to seven pounds of butter per week.
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