This was a big herd," said Chet, eying the cut-up sod seriously.
Then he cinched on the saddle, dropped his kerchief on the sod and picked it up with his teeth, Poke running like a wolf meanwhile.
The hoofs of their horses cut the sod sharply, and threw up bits of turf as the animals scurried over the ground.
We are here in their very home, and, galled by their furious stinging onslaughts, can recall nothing but Ayres's exclamation: Cheerless Neapeague!
Even though she may be an heiress, he cannot very well begin by asking her to pay his railway-fare.
All vulgarity of detail was lost in the softening dusk, and there was something almost picturesque in the opposite roof, whose outline was delicately drawn on the pale-blue sky.
Illustration: IOWA SOD PLOW] The heavy sod of the Iowa prairies was beyond the strength of the individual settler.
In the years of first development the professional sod breaker was on hand, a most important member of his community, with his great plough, and large teams of from six to twelve oxen, making the ground ready for the first crop.
Oregon homeseekers had been cutting it deep in the prairie sod for five years.
These breaks in the sod made by animals or other agencies do not always give triumph to the trees.
Fighting deer sometimes cut the sod and thus allow a few tree seeds to assert themselves.
In large field operations, where the dried bean is the object in view, a clover sod is a favorite location.
Broken sod ground or any green crop turned down favors their growth, and well-rotted stable manure in the hill is the best known stimulant.
Clover sod is an excellent source of nitrogen, as heretofore explained.
The permanence of the sod will depend very largely on the fertility and preparation of the soil in the beginning.
To obtain sufficient sod of suitable quality for covering terrace-slopes or small blocks that for any reason cannot well be seeded is often a difficult matter.
A clover sod is particularly desirable for this as well as for other fruits.
A foot-wide board is laid upon the turf, and the sod cut along either edge of it.
Two years should elapse beforesod land is used for this crop.
The sod rolls over until it meets the walk, and the lawn-mower is able to keep it in condition.
Never set the bushes in holes dug in the old sod (Fig.
The place should be very deeply plowed or else trenched; and if the land is in sod or is not in good heart, the preparation should begin the season before the peonies are planted.
Little hummocks may be cut off, some of the earth removed, and the sod replaced.
If flowers are to be grown on a lawn, let them be of the hardy kind, which can be naturalized in the sod and which grow freely in the tall unmown grass; or else perennials of such nature that they make attractive clumps by themselves.
Rich, newly turned sod and a heavy dressing of well-rotted manure go a long way toward assuring a good crop.
Then Roden got out and filled his pipe, and having lighted it, sat down on the sod wall and calmly began to blow a cloud.
At the end of the sod wall where it joined the quince hedge, he thought the ditch might be deeper, the long grass or other undergrowth thicker.
Then Roden, crouching half-buried in his ditch, could feel the vibration of the sod wall, could hear the approach of voices now sounding almost in his ear.
Peering warily through the tufted grasses which had taken root along the top of the sod wall, Roden's gaze fell upon a scene which was indescribably barbarous and weird.
Two men appear among the fruit trees, and, getting over the low sod wall, now come up.
But fortune favoured him, and in a moment he lay crouching in the ditch behind the low sod wall, just as the flame was applied to the piles of brushwood which had been heaped against the front of the house.
In 1873 the name Bismarck was chosen, but the first title of the town persisted.
These fields were held by the family with a sort of perpetual lease from the community, the term of the lease being dependent only on the condition that good use be made of the land.
Norwegian stock today constitutes 30 percent of the population of the State, and persons born in Norway make up 29.
Lewis and Clark credited her with the success of their expedition.
Several semi-public homes and orphanages are operated by churches and other organizations.
In one group about the fire an elderly man was relating the history of the tribe to a circle of youthful faces.
Square dances in barn lofts, and college "proms" with corsages and grand marches.
Experimentation showed that the soil which was good for northern potatoes was also excellent for sugar beets.
Only a country road of sticky Red River Valley gumbo connected the campus with the city, and, except for the fortunate few who caught rides on horse-drawn vehicles, city students walked to classes.
Winship eventually purchased his rival's paper and merged it with the Herald, which since 1881 has been published as a daily.
Within the fenced area are the remains of the sod fortification, and eight Government grave markers have been placed inside it in memory of those who lost their lives in the episode.
The cabin originally had a much steeper, shingle roof, but a later owner replaced this with a sod one, hoping to make the building warmer.
A furrow some three inches deep was plowed into a tough sod containing many grass roots, and the brokensod was cut into lengths the width of the wall, up to two and a half feet.
The father, turning a piece of the sod back into its natural position, remarked, "Wrong side up.
Sometimes these sod roofs actually bloomed in the spring as their many roots came to life, and one pioneer told of the small poles which formed the framework of his roof leafing out inside the house in midwinter.
The stage station was a crude log hut, roofed first with prairie sod and later with a thatch of weeds when the rain washed the sod away.
Oxen and plows were used to obtain sod with which a dirt wall 6 ft.
I hope to keep a fair sod on these lots, and they will be large enough to give the animals exercise and keep them healthy.
The sod was kept in good condition and the field free from weeds, by the use of the mowing-machine, set high, every ten or twenty days, according to the season.
This left 180 trees in fair health; and in spite of the tight sod which covered their roots and a lamentable lack of pruning, they were well covered with young fruit.
My dear old chap, we won't lose sight of you until that green sod covers the stanchest heart that ever beat.
