Grew up on a more or less hard luck farm. Dad came right out of high school and ran the place for his stepmother, grandfather having passed away. He took care of his stepmother, and married late, he was forty when I was born. He was much more a logger and sugar maker than dairyman and crop farmer. the dairy herd was never very big, and he couldn't swing the change to bulk tanks,etc, in the early fifties.
By the time I started working with him, he was raising dairy heifers, logging and making syrup. By the time I got into high school ,I couldn't wait to get away. I went to a high pressure engineering school, couldn't make the grade, transferred to a state teacher's college, graduated, but my student teaching experience cured me of any thought of teaching.
Along the way I did some stupid things, drank too much, and hung out with less than reputable companions. I came home after college, camped out for the summer, and went in the woods with my Dad and my brother in law that winter. Continued to drink and do all little as possible, lived in a few places around, but never worked very much, anywhere except the farm. Bought my brother in law's trailer on the farm when he and my sister left, met my current wife a couple years later, she moved in with me, and suddenly I found myself not drinking, and actually enjoying the work.
Mother and Dad did less, I did more, they finally passed away in 2000, and I am still here. My boys are off to college, and may not come back, but I hope to hold the opportunity available to them for as long as possible.
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Today's Featured Article - History of the Cockshutt Tractor - by Danny Bowes (Dsl). The son of a very successful Toronto and Brantford, Ontario merchant, and himself quite an entreprenuer, James G. Cockshutt opened a business called the Brantford Plow Works in 1877. In 1882, the business was incorporated to become the Cockshutt Plow Company. Along with quality built equipment, expedious demand and expansion made Cockshutt Plow Works the leader in the tillage tools sector of the farm equipment industry by the 1920's.
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