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3<br> forty five years ago Armstrong & wife decided to leave the city for the farm, sold out their city business at a sacrifice of several thousand dollars.<br>      The farm was situated on the bank of the Niagara River seven miles from Niagara Falls Ont. and consisted of 28 1/2 acres of deep dark sandy loam. The land was mostly occupied with large old apple trees, growing in a stiff quack or couch grass sod, which is generally considered a serious handicap in any soil.<br>      However this solid bed of quack roots when properly treated and rotted, became a storehouse of [word] in the soil -<br>      Ten acres of the apple trees were soon removed, and cut up for fire wood, and the land ploughed late in the fall, five inches deep, leaving the quack roots exposed for the winter frost -<br>      Early the next spring it was well cultivated with disc harrow, until corn planting time, when it was planted with corn and kept very clean with horse cultivator and hoe, especially in dry weather<br>      A bountiful crop of corn was harvested and removed, Hogs were turned in to clean up nubbins, grubs &, the exercise was of much benefit to the hogs in health and weight-<br><br>