Whitehaven Gazette Thurs. Mar. 25, 1897 Anecdote Competition | Anecdote Competition |
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| Whitehaven Gazette - Thurs. Mar. 25, 1897 | ||||||||||||||
Page 5 of 12 Prize Winner LING BESOMS The late Mr. Joseph ROBERTS, of Egremont, who farmed high, had a field on his Marlborough farm which grew little but heather, yet he top- dressed it heavily with farmyard manure. The late Mr. James MILLER, also a good farmer in his way, could not conceive the utility of such an extravagant application upon what he called only moor land, and exclaimed to a friend "Zooks, lad, ah doon't know what farmin's ga'an to git tull next. Yonder Joe ROBERTS muckin' his field for ling besoms." But the muck did its duty, and never another ling besom was got form that field. Robert H. BENN Low MILL, Beckermet. |
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