New Farm: The Land

The farm was one of several in that area that were owned by the Louis J. Kolb estate. It was relatively level and consisted of one hundred and eight acres. We rented it for twenty-five dollars a month. Although some of the land seemed in good shape it was apparent it had been badly used in the preceding years. All of the plowable acreage had been planted to sweet corn, and some of the fields had been so badly washed out by the storms that previous summer, there were ditches as much as six feet deep and ten feet wide. This, we knew, was very poor management and should not have happened. But there were some good fields and some pasture land.