The Phoenix Generation (2011)
“Could it be a year ago that the New Cut had been made, and then the bare-fallowing of the twenty acres of the Steep? How pleasing to see green, sappy heads of wheat waving in the breeze of early morning, beside the neat design of the New Cut leading up to the skyline.
He sat down to enjoy the sight of a weed-free field, pleased with himself that he was able to get free of worry for a moment. Could this be the same field upon which he had looked with such despondency from Pine Tree Camp in h...is first year of farming, to see what appeared to be a silver-grey mist lying upon a lake in the early morning? But it was not the foggy dew of morning before a day of great heat that he had stared at on that occasion, but twenty acres of seeded thistles which had completely overtopped a dwarfed crop of thin barley stalks: a grey mass of one burst cardoon touching another burst cardoon extending to the distant trees of the Great Bustard Wood. And the yield of barley that season, sown merely to add to the sum to be paid for ingoing covenants—hay, straw, standing crops, etc.—had been about two sacks, and the yield of thistle seed about four sacks, an acre.MoreLess
He sat down to enjoy the sight of a weed-free field, pleased with himself that he was able to get free of worry for a moment. Could this be the same field upon which he had looked with such despondency from Pine Tree Camp in h...is first year of farming, to see what appeared to be a silver-grey mist lying upon a lake in the early morning? But it was not the foggy dew of morning before a day of great heat that he had stared at on that occasion, but twenty acres of seeded thistles which had completely overtopped a dwarfed crop of thin barley stalks: a grey mass of one burst cardoon touching another burst cardoon extending to the distant trees of the Great Bustard Wood. And the yield of barley that season, sown merely to add to the sum to be paid for ingoing covenants—hay, straw, standing crops, etc.—had been about two sacks, and the yield of thistle seed about four sacks, an acre.MoreLess
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