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echo: coffee_klatsch
to: Cindy Haglund
from: Jack Yates
date: 2007-05-25 01:11:04
subject: Farming

> Hi all! If anybody reads anything about the advent of Agriculture in
> central and North east Texas and wonders why pre colonial Indians stuck to
> hunting and guttering for so much longer than anyone else else where -
> it's not just drought and rare water supplies ... Come on down here and
> try tillin' this wet clay ... heh...

Just use a *BIG* tractor and a 4-bottom plow.  Worked for me in New York
state and in Kentucky, where the clay is soup-bowl quality without benefit
of the kiln.

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