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This busy season on the farm brings to mind a pithy quote of a few years back. Finding himself a slave to the multitudinous weeds in the garden, the fellow reported: “I squared myself and looked at that ground. ‘Look here,’ I says, ‘I own you; you don’t own me.’ And I just quit working like a dog.’’
Very fine sentiments, If you can get by with it. However, most any farmer — or businessman — will inform you that the farm owns him (and runs him) no matter how much he might enjoy saying he owns and runs the farm.
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This is a favorable season for slipping .roses. If you have a particularly satisfactory rose bush,
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