Re: Production Numbers, 1906-1922

Posted by Hugh MacKay on January 15, 2005 at 11:27:37 from (64.228.11.45):

In Reply to: Production Numbers, 1906-1922 posted by Guy Fay on January 15, 2005 at 08:13:51:

Guy: Thanks for posting that information. Interesting part about this is, it's hard to imagine in 2005, that many North American farmers wanted to punish themselves that badly 80 years ago.

My dad and grandfather were clearing some land in 1938. They were actually through the clearing process and were tilling it and picking rocks. They had a new to them Fordson on steel with field cultivator and the team of horses on what we called a dump cart, (2 wheeled cart you loaded so it was balanced then one could dump by hand). My dad was picking rocks and grand dad was driving the Fordson. They went home to lunch, after which, grand dad said to my dad, " You take the Fordson this afternoon and I'll pick rocks." Kind of hard to imagine two grown men might argue over the rock picking job.

The Fordson only stayed around 4 years and was replaced by a new W4. That ended discussion on who might pick rocks. In fact dad put an end to anymore clearing that rocky upland. He set out to drain river bottom land, that grand dad said he couldn't do. Alluvial flood plain with not a stone to be seen. He drained 150 acres of it by 1955.

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