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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
All that I could do towards farming that fall, was to clear off a few acres of the more open part of my land, which I engaged a Mr. Arnold living near Tecumseh village, to break up for me; he being about the
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only one I heard of who followed the business of breaking up prairie land or openings for a living; this he did with a large strong plow drawn by five or six yoke of cattle. On the 30th of November, 1831, while he was at work for me, there came a cold snap with about four inches of snow, and he had to take his teams and plow home, as he could do no more breaking up until the ground settled next spring. When I went after him then, I found him breaking up on the Wright farm, northwest of the village of Tecumseh, where the hazel brush in places was so tall and thick, that the boy driving the teams had to go on the off side of the cattle. They cut a strip about twenty inches or more in width, and six to eight inches deep, turning the brush under and covering it just about as an ordinary plow would turn under corn-stalks or weeds.
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