Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
The total number of farms in New York state decreased in 2007 for the fourth straight year, although land used for farming held steady at approximately 7.5 million acres, according to survey information released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service on Monday.
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