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Posted by chrisbroz at 6:16 pm (PDT) on Tue May 16, 2017
The coming of Fall always meant the smell of burning leaves in Northern New Jersey...I remember floks raking leaves to piles on the curb...the burning and watching them burn all afternoon..
Posted by Chuck Kopsho at 2:52 pm (PDT) on Tue May 16, 2017
Wow! Way before political correctness and such. When we kids back in Orange County, CA, it was standard practice burning leaves in our backyard.
Posted by chrisbroz at 12:51 pm (PDT) on Fri October 16, 2015
Sugar-cane farmers here in So FL burn the fields after harvest...it clears the stubble and returns nutrients to the ground. In the late fall and early winter you can see the clouds of smoke for miles
Posted by notsteve at 11:32 am (PDT) on Fri October 16, 2015
They still burn sugar cane fields on Maui
Posted by Robert Hutchison at 12:27 pm (PDT) on Thu September 24, 2015
I do not know if they still do it, but some farmers actually set their fields afire after harvesting their crop, especially in Oregon!
Posted by Kathy Townsend at 8:07 pm (PDT) on Mon September 7, 2015
yep but actually we burned them across the road dad had a burning barrel in the bAckyard and he burned all paper trash in there us girls were forbidden to start the fire we were fragile and could get hurt you know ha
Posted by Bob Matthews at 3:30 pm (PDT) on Thu July 10, 2014
Those days "carcinogenic" was a word confined to the Sunday crossword puzzle.
Posted by Henry Evan McElfresh at 12:32 pm (PDT) on Sat May 31, 2014
raked the leaves & set fire to them by the front curb-everybody burned their leaves on saturday.
Posted by GlenEllyn at 3:18 am (PDT) on Sun June 17, 2012
Ah, a true scent of autumn! I remember when one of the our chores was to "burn the papers." We had to empty all the wastebaskets in the house, take them out to the far backyard and burn them in an old metal drum. Of course, more than once we accidentally set the open field behind our house on fire. Good times!

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