For pioneers, farming started with stump clearing – St. Cloud Times

St. Cloud TimesFor pioneers, farming started with stump clearingSt. Cloud TimesMy great-grandparents emigrated from Hungary to Grand Lake in Cold Spring in the 1860s. They were farmers. My father, Henry Salzl, often told me. "It was all woods at that time." To begin farming, they had to clear land. "It was done mostly by hand …