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tips. That is when they seem the stickingest too. They weren't to hard to mow but were miserable to stack. To keep your legs from getting raw you needed boots up to the knee or as close as possible.
Sheep wintered pretty good on thistles but cattle needed a little straw or hay. But lots of cattle got through winters on almost pure thistles.
Henry Groseclose had a joke about how he wintered his cattle on a daily ration of one thistle and two snow balls. I wasn't' too far from being a fact.
Grasshoppers became a way of life. They got in the house at every opportunity. They were everywhere. If you looked down you saw grasshopper on the ground. If you looked up on most any day you could see them moving in the air as high as you could see. If you got in the shade of something the hoppers were there too.
I've seen hoppers so thick on the shady side of the telephone poles and fence
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