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installed but the most unique and unexpected change was that'two new springs had started flowing abundantly.

That thirty acres of crop land was on the top and one side of a large hill. On one slope was where the locusts were planted, on the back slope the pine and some Kudzu were now thriving; the third slope was that seven-acre pasture and the fourth was where the strip cropping had been originally established and was now in hay. Below the crop land and below the pine was where the springs were. . . that on the cropland side was cased in. . . not for a home water supply, for that was already provided for, but instead a water supply piped and flowing by gravity to the cow barn, from there to the brooder and hen houses and on to the pig penl It is far better to have water flowing out of a hill than it is down it for I believe that is the way God intended it to be . . . certainly not/ flowing down hill carrying life-giving soil with it. V

Now determination and the will to do were not all the qualitities the Maiers had, nor was hardship all

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