Farm Collector

MORE LAZY FARMER

During the 1930s, ’40s and early ’50s, many farm papers published a feature called The Song of the Lazy Farmer, but the author of this on-going feature was never identified. I featured a good many of the old rhymes a number of years ago, but ran out of them in 2017. A while back, I discovered a few more from the spring of 1950.

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