Several weeks ago we drove to work behind a tractor towing a load of manure. When we finally had a chance to get around, we noticed another load a few hundred meters farther down the road. And we met several empties coming towards us. Obviously someone was hauling a lot of…fertilizer to a field somewhere. The French word for dungheap is fumier. Driving along behind this guy you could see why: the steam coming off it looked like smoke, or in French, fumée.
We long ago noticed a difference between farm equipment on the road where we come from and farm equipment on the road here. I'm use to tractors on the road, but in the US a farmer gets on the road for a few hundred yards, a mile maybe. Here, you get behind a tractor, he may be driving 20 km away. I guess it's the way land has been subdivided over the years here. One farmer seems to have itty bitty parcels scattered all over the countryside.
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Interesting! they really drive that far away huh? I did notice the word for manure was similar to the smoking deal . . weird -
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