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ParticipantOnce upon a time, northern new england and maine was covered with white pine 8 – 10 feet in diameter 130’ tall. The king of England claimed and blazed them all for mast pine. They had to turn a spar 32” in diameter 67 feet from the stump. The king owned them trees and It was against the law to cut them.
Now and then while working on old barns and houses here, we run into a wide piece of pine sheathing 26 – 30” across. Not in a place of importance like waiscoating or flooring, but up in an attic or open chamber as a floor board or sheathing. Someplace that a farmer might go with his neighbor to pull of a pint of cider and chat. Maybe look at that board and drink the kings health so to speak.
It’s much easier to pit saw a smaller cant into boards. I wonder if that wide plank has another purpose. I’m saving my pea seeds and they are hanging in our shed rafters drying out for next spring. Not cause I can’t afford pea seed, but because I want to tell Monsanto to stick their seed where the sun don’t shine. Like that old farmer might have drank to the health of his king.
Our well intentioned congressmen and women get their agricultural information from high paid lobiests working for corporations that want nothing less than to own our food.
If the framers of our constitution could have anticipated such a thing I’m sure they would have included food along with guns in the 2nd amendment. Imagine it. Owning the seed and food.mitch
Participantabsolutely, erica. it’s a community problem. however big your neighborhood gets. even state wide. just cause you have it doesn’t mean the end is near, right? disposal of cull potatos and vines until the spores are dead. dead dead.
theres no great shame getting it, cause anyone can get it, even with good practices. the mistake is not letting your neighbor know or dealing with the problem correctly.
some of the blight going around now was someone elses problem last summer.
thanks for bringing that up.
mitchParticipantjust my opinion, but all the extension agent does is go from farm to farm distributing spores from other farms and spreading blight. if you have to know take him a plant. otherwise spray your copper and hope for the best.
Participantmany thanks. hardest part of being an old cat.
Participanted, look at the underside of your leaf and see if it looks like dull green velvet full of little tiny white spores. thats what late blight looks like. hard to tell from your video. there is a spotted leaf blight that potatos have thats not quite as bad. just steals foliage.
mitch
Participanthey ed, you could try copper sulphate. trim back your spoiled plants, get as much fungus off as you can and gone. and spray the plants til they turn blue from the copper. might be to late but worth a try i’d guess.
it was explained to me that late blight in potato is a different creature than in the tomato and doesn’t cross. mofga guy. don’t know about that one, but we got our potatoes and tomatos both off last year without any trouble using copper.
did you buy new seed?
good luck, mitchParticipantgood news. the woods are still full of them.
mitch
Participantthats right carl. a few seconds of him as a kid yarding birch bolts. lost my copy. gotta get a new one. thanks, mitch
Participant2″ rain last night. spotted showers today. monday and tuesday look sunny with s-west breeze. then back into showers. not the best haymaking weather, but the best chance in the last week. here we go. thats the weather from here.
mitch
Participantwarm soapy water when the collar came off with a clean water rinse, and a dry brush when the collar goes on.
that was the advice i got once. wish i was better at doing it.mitch
Participanthi ed, i like your signs over there. “thank you for continuing to drive safely”. thats a nice sign. “humped zebra crossing”.(??????) don’t know what that meant, but…”please give way” sounds way better than yeild. and the picture of the construction guy digging in his sand pile. i thought it was some one who was having trouble putting up his umbrella. oh well.
our signs imply guilt immediately. “violators will be prosecuted” should read prosecutors will be violated. anyway, its all about how you read it, i guess.best wishes, mitch
Participanton reraking, i always found if it laid overnight, it would dew under the windrow and couldn’t dry unless you reraked it over to a spot that was dry.
my mower was down this time so i cut with the tractor. i always made a rule not to ask the horses to sweep up what i put down with a machine. like expecting your guest to clean his plate after you served him up. around here you serve yourself take as much as you wish but clean your plate.
same with the haying. donn was using a conditioner i think, but still mowing with horses. if they are hard enough to mow it down, even with a conditioner, then they should be hard enough to sweep it up later.
my weak link here is me.
good haying. looks like a week of fog with showers. oh, joy.mitch
which would you rather be, a weak old man or a week old baby?Participantgeoff,
i went to a reg. gear 9 cause my old mares walked up so fast. that team with a high gear mower, felt like the mower was going to explode. can’t imagine it behind a tractor where you couldn’t hear or feel how it was going. they made a trail mower that was meant (i think) to be trailed behind a tractor. it had wider wheels. must have had stronger guts too.
when something is designed for a horse and pulled by a tractor, something has to give, i think.mitch
Participanthi kristan, maybe its northern new england, but my day sounds just like yours. we have to ted twice, and the flies are man killers here this summer. we had two wagon loads yesterday to bring in and it was 91 out and you could wring water out of the air. i just couldn’t do it, and left the horses in and raked and baled with the tractor. when the wind comes dry and cool out of canada, life is sweet. southwest brings heat and moisture off the ocean, but yesterday, the wind was coming straight out of hell, my hay crew quit, and we had to make it through alive. all is well now.
mitch
Participant[PHP]… We in Scotland only recently got our own government after 300yrs[/PHP]
funny john, we’ve had our govt. for about 300 years and it seems like we are losing it.
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