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Time: The American Currency
Summer is a time in which College students ultimately do two things: We ask ourselves big questions and figure out that no one can help us with the answers. Although this is not completely true for college students to plenty of other things consider it a brief reflection. We use the summer as a time ...
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B-more
Over the past few weeks I have begun straying farther and farther from farm life, drifting back to Baltimore, my hometown and ”The City that Reads.” That slogan was adopted in 1987 by former mayor Kurt Schmoke and was pasted to a great number of bus stop benches in an effort to revive slacking literacy levels. In ...
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The French “Ed Rooney”
One of the best thing about a farm is that it seems to be about as far from bureaucracy as we can get. There are a number of definitions for the “B-word”, my favorite being : government characterized by specialization of functions, adherence to fixed rules, and a hierarchy of authority (As provided by Merriam ...
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A chainsaw, and The Boss as religion
I would like to warn all readers that the following story will most likely be severely embellished in order to both keep tension high and up my word count. Nevertheless, this small story, as insignificant as it may eventually seem was mere inches away from changing my ambulatory lifestyle. I currently stand proudly on two ...
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The Reality of Pigs
Bill owns a large bloodhound named Rosey, or Emma or something. Despite being in open support of all things dog, I have really come to detest this animal and its whiny, insistent ways. I would show you a picture but am too repulsed by its sordid nature to risk soiling my camera with a permanent ...
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High Tensile Fencing
For the past two weeks I have woken up at 6:30 each morning, put on the same pair of jeans that I had worn the previous day ( by putting on yesterdays jeans each morning you quickly find yourself wearing the same jeans you wore not just yesterday but also last week), fried up a ...
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Cow Breeding and General Farm Maintenance
Welcome to Nick’s blog on Cow Breeding and General Farm Maintenance. That first sentence is going to disappoint a lot of men and women who are scouring the Internet looking for actual advice on Cow Breeding and General Farm maintenance. In reality I know very little about how to breed cows although I do know ...