Will Ludwig wrote on Friday, February 02, 2001 (PST): A wonderful review of what many of us thought were the best years of our lives. Now that I'm retired I too have returned to collecting some of the things that bring back great memories. I now have several Cubs that I plan to restore. I have actually seen "Country Elliot's" restored Farmalls. They truly are prizes to be cherished. Calvin Robinson wrote on Friday, February 02, 2001 (PST): Hi Country Elliott, that was one of the best stories I've read in quite a while. Really enjoyed it, I had a similar life growing up here in West Virginia. My dad had 5 acres and always wanted to be a farmer but instead was a doctor in nuclear medicine at our local veterans hospital. And the same as you as I grew up watched the neighbors do some farming. Hope everyone enjoys your story as much as I have C E take care my cub friend, Calvin.....WV... JR wrote on Saturday, February 03, 2001 (PST): SORRY CASE DID NOT MAKE A RC CASE IN 1948 . Lloyd Nauss wrote on Saturday, February 03, 2001 (PST): Wonderful article. Reminds me of my childhood visiting my grandparents farm on the weekends and during summer vacation from school. The frog pond seemed so big at the time and deep too! Well, twenty five years later, I have my 13 acres, 1957 cockshutt tractor, pond, outbuildings, blacksmith shop etc. I knew from an early age, life would continue outside the city - and it does!!! Lloyd, Maders Cove, Nova Sotia, Canada Sam kennedy wrote on Saturday, February 03, 2001 (PST): I really enjoyed your story. Things have just changed the same here in Ireland. Any tractor under 130HP is no good any more. All these time saving monsters have created farmers who have no time any more. Why not take a look at my boyhood David Browns at www.davidbrowntractor.com Best wishes from the Emerald Isle. Dave 2N wrote on Saturday, February 03, 2001 (PST): Great description of those wonderful years! It was like that for me too, just in a different place. Buford wrote on Saturday, February 03, 2001 (PST): I have been there ,and watched as work was being done .This brings back many, many found memories. Keep up the good work Ron wrote on Saturday, February 03, 2001 (PST): THANK YOU!! Brian wrote on Sunday, February 04, 2001 (PST): Great story, but too short! I to have fond memorys of N/W Jersey, Blairstown to be exact. Even after we moved to Calif. I would drive back 'home' to the 200 acre dairy farm I still love, to help w/ the haying.All 30 years ago. Thanks for the fine story, doen't let it be your last! Albert Nesbit wrote on Sunday, February 04, 2001 (PST): Elliott, we miss you back here.Who else drives their M to the coffee shop then goes visiting around town. Your article was great. Al Jim Handy wrote on Sunday, February 04, 2001 (PST): Great article. As great as things are these days I always regret that my kids were not able to have the experience of growing up on a farm like it was in the 50's. I have a 7 acre farmstead and one of my sons and I have 18 ageless iron treasures (mostly Farmalls) that we enjoy. Jim Broughton wrote on Sunday, February 04, 2001 (PST): Great stories !!.. I grew up inthe forties, and you are right...I drive (for the last 40 years !) a 1946 3/4 ton Chevrolet pick-up, just like my farmer father had. I too, have restored a 1959 Cub, complete with sickle mower, plow and blade. I also have a small 1971 John Deere for lawn mowing and garden work . Connections with the past...you bet !!! Keep up the good work !! and Thanks !! Wes Suksdorf wrote on Tuesday, February 06, 2001 (PST): I am 24 years old and wish that I lived during the times described in this story. My family farms and I plan on farming someday but it just isn't the same anymore. Fifty years from now I don't expect so see any JD 9400 tractors being restored, nor do I expect to hear people talk so fondly about the past. Farming used to be something people were passionate about. Now it is a job. I now have a 1947 JD model A that I am restoring. It is just like one that my grandfather and dad had years ago. I even plan to farm with it when I get the chance. I admire the author of this story for caring enough to keep the past alive. I only wish that I could have seen the things that he describes as well as read about them. Sue Elgert wrote on Wednesday, February 07, 2001 (PST): Great times to remember. Funny, I have some of the same menories though I seem to look at them in a little different way. But, that is what makes our memories our own.You see I am his sister. Glenn wrote on Thursday, February 08, 2001 (PST): Great story! I did not grow up in the country, but I hope to raise kids there. Such memories are priceless. MJD wrote on Friday, February 23, 2001 (PST): OH YES - what times they were!! We had a Farmall 350 with 9 ft. mower and other Farmall or Minne-Mo to pull IH rake to do the same stuff with alfalfa..what a great time of year and still makes the best hay!! Great story, the play time in the fields, the old cars, tractors, milk...still a great thing. Why have it any other way ?? Have done exactly the same in Nebr. and Wyo. where we now live. Farmers...take care !!! Theres getting less and less of us !! Doug Dowty wrote on Tuesday, February 27, 2001 (PST): This article brings back a flood of memories for myself as well as it did for the author. Those were special times to say the least and it is a pleasurable thing to "rewind" our memory tapes and go back to a simpler time. It just goes to show you how in the big picture how we are alike no matter where we live! I have relatives in the Flemington, Califon, White House Station area of New Jersey, where is the author from exactly? Just curious. Thanks again for the memories!! paul wrote on Wednesday, February 28, 2001 (PST): growing up in central NJ, but in the late 60s and early 70s....i have exactly the same memories. we lived next to a large farm, and i remember walking home form school and hearing the farmer in the field. when the corn was tall, and we couldnt see him, we could always tell where he was by the sound of that old Farmall. i also remember the apple and peach orchards, the pumpkin patches...and all of what you spoke!!!!! now, that farm is gone...lots of six figure homes with 4 car garages. how sad. i wonder if the folks that live there have any idea of the great times previous generations had funning around that field. i doubt it. Bob Cohen wrote on Thursday, February 07, 2002 (PST): Am a curator at a farm museum and would love to put one of Lou's cider jugs in it on exhibit. Contact me ,please John Scheiber wrote on Friday, November 08, 2002 (PST): I was reised in Newport, Pa,., but have lived in Ga. since 1953. I owned my first cub in 1959. Was a 1950 model. What a great Tractor. I currently have a 1951 model, which I am restoring. They are a great retirment project. I remember wonderful times on the farm, growing up. This article is a rememberance of those days. Thanks! Louis Savadge, Jr. wrote on Tuesday, February 18, 2003 (PST): I obtained a copy of "Yesterday's Tractors" newsletter and was surprised to hear you tell your experiences on my father's farm in Brookside. I would like to obtain other newsletters of yours, as I am also interested in antique tractors, if at all possible. dan dooley wrote on Tuesday, September 30, 2003 (PDT): What a neat story ... like so many other fellows said .. that is real similar to my youth... I was raised on a farm here in SD and when I retired from my Cabinet business in Texas, I bought an old tractor to use here on the ranch in the Black Hills of SD .... It needed a lot of work, but the work was peaceful and addictive. It made me think of my dad, my mother and the farm ..... now there are over 200 old tractors in my collection that I have repaired .. but not painted.... that is all I do. A lot of people stop to look at them and I have heard a million stories about someones youth on a farm and their romance with a tractor, but none any better than yours my friend ....dd Scotty D wrote on Sunday, May 08, 2005 (PDT): Great story country. That sure is a nice cub of yours. "Countrry" Elliott Domans wrote on Thursday, May 19, 2005 (PDT): THANK YOU to all the readers for their very NICE comments! I had fun writing the article, and remembering those "special" days of the 1950's! M wrote on Saturday, December 03, 2005 (PST): Outstanding article. You nailed it, "Country." Ed wrote on Saturday, December 03, 2005 (PST): Same here.Grew up inbetween hackettstown and washington on a dairy farm, no better way to grow up. Tried to give my kids the same type of memories. "Country" Elliott Domans wrote on Monday, March 13, 2006 (PST): THANK YOU for the additional NICE comments. To Louis Savage, Jr.; I tried to email you, but was unsuccessful. I would like to get in touch with you Louis, you may email me at edomans@charter.net Ron Ames wrote on Tuesday, May 01, 2007 (PDT): I worked with a Don Bockoven in the 1970 s and we always wondered if we were related since emy mother s maiden name was Bockoven. I now believe the answer is definately yes and would like to contact him. Country Elliott Domans wrote on Monday, June 18, 2007 (PDT): Hi Ron...Sadly Don passed away several years ago, but his wife Florence is still alive and living in Brookside, on West Main Street in the same farmhouse she and Don lived in when you worked for him in the 1970 s.

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