Betty B.
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first heard Jul 2026
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Today, those farms have almost a half million cattle and an equal number of sheep, goats, and pigs, while new livestock is being brought in every day.
I have seen flock after flock of sheep watched by shepherds and great numbers of cows tied by long ropes to stakes feeding on grass which reached to their knees.
The cows are allowed to eat only that set before them, and they cut off a field foot by foot
as though it were mowed with a scythe there are no fences whatever and a cow will feed upon clover going only the length of her rope while within smelling distance just beyond are wheat and oats sometimes running as high as forty bushels to the acre after she has eaten her allotted area close to the ground the stake is moved and she cuts down a new patch let me take you across country and show you some of the new farms of northern france
We are in a panhard limousine with the army officer and the chauffeur on the front seat.
We are going over a road as hard as stone and as smooth as a floor.
Occasionally, we see windrows of barbed wire still lying by the sides of the road, while here and there it is cocked up like hay in the fields or made up into bales to be sold as old iron.
Each bale is about a foot thick, two feet wide, and three long.
It weighs 125 pounds
and brings $4 a ton.
I can't tell you how much of this barbed wire there was, but it covered tens of thousands of acres, and it will probably be years before it is all out of the way.
The greater part of the wire has been taken from the land that can be farmed, and the only places where it still lies in any quantity are in the red zone, made up of the worst ravaged of the battle areas.
It equals 3,000 farms of 100 acres each.
it will cost more than it is worth to redeem it and so the government has bought the land from the peasants to plant it with trees there is no possibility of making it into farmland for another generation because it will take from fifty to a hundred years for the leaf mold from the forest to create a new topsoil as we go on with our ride we look out at right and left through the trees the carpet of crops reaches on and on to the wooded horizon the fields are of all shapes and sizes
and each is as smooth as the newly woven stuffs from the silk mills of Lyon.
Here and there in this beautiful blanket, a town is rising out of ruins, and patches of great barns with their roofs of red tile stand high over the green.
The fields are of many colors, and just now the declining rays of the sun have turned them to velvet.
There are green sugar beets and purple alfalfa.
There are patches of golden ripe wheat, lemon-hued oats,
and the dark brown newly plowed land now and then we pass a place where the red poppies are trying to conquer the gold of the wheat the poppies are about the only weeds to be seen and we ride on and on through what seems a vast garden i am surprised at the good farming i see all over france in our agriculture every third man is a sluggard his fields are half plowed and weeds line the roadsides his meadows are peppered with blue thistle or daisies
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