1. The land went the way of so much other land in America -- it became a parking lot. 2. And as the farm crisis bit, more and more land went out of farming forever to become new housing. 3. And how could it happen that this hauntingly beautiful, misty land went undiscovered for a century except by residents of nearby villages? 4. A surging population has meant less land to go around. 5. But the land goes out of farming forever, and another street of houses is added to the Iowa countryside. 6. But the air is clean and the land goes on and on in every direction. 7. If her land went to a timber company, the magnificent loblolly pines and poplars and cedars in her woodlands would most likely be clear-cut. 8. If the market is left to itself, the farmers will be pushed from the land, and the land itself will go uncultivated. 9. Succession happens when cleared land is let go. 10. The land went into private hands before the city bought it back last year. |