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Careful What You Ask For | I grew up on a farm in Nort Texas. Dad welded a sweep on my first tricycle so I could 'plow' with him. I remember when I was about ten asking when I could start driving a tractor. He told me that his dad told him he had to raise a garden first. Next day I planted some potatoes and corn by the water well so I could water them easily. All went as planned until the potatoe plant was about 8' tall -- one day I checked it and the potatoe beetles had left just a nub about 2' high. I thought about that garden one evening a few years later when I was plowing with a JD 730 and I could see the lights of the baseball field where my best friend and my ex-girlfriend were watching the game. Mike Caldwell, KY, entered 2003-07-12 My Email Address: Not Displayed |
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Fire in the Field A hay fire is no laughing matter-well, maybe one was! And a good life-lesson, too. Following World War II many farm boys returned home both older and wiser. One such man was my employer the summer I was sixteen. He was a farmer by birth and a farmer by choice, and like many returning soldiers, he was our silent hero: without medals or decorations, but with a certain ability to survive. It was on his farm that I learned to use the combination hand clutch and brake on a John D
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