Didn't have a choice; my dad was the most controlling person I've ever known. When we graduated from HS in '62, most of my friends headed off to college. I was told....in effect....to put my butt in the tractor/cotton picker/combine, etc seat. One would think that at 18 years old, one could make their own decisions, but I was too conditioned/accustomed to obeying. The concept had been RIGIDLY enforced for 18 years. I worked for him for a few years, before I finally got it through my head that I was never gonna be a partner, just essentially slave labor. By then, I thought it was too late to do anything else. A neighbor asked if I was interested in buying a half-interest in his cattle and renting his 320 acres; another 330 acres in the community was also for rent. I approached the president at the locally owned bank, to see if they would back me; in retrospect, I can't believe that they did, but they gave me a $75,000 line of credit. Eventually, I was farming 1,000 acres of row crop and running almost 300 head of (commercial) mama beef cows. I'm since retired; it was a good, though VERY stressful life; if I had it to do over, knowing what I know now, I might do something else.
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Today's Featured Article - Restoration Story: 1929 McCormick-Deering 10-20 - by Randal Simmon. On July 4th 1998 my dad and I was sitting on the front porch when he said that he was going to sell his two 10-20's to a junk man. He said that the junk man was going to give him $500 for both of them but he hadn't received the money for them yet. So I went into the house and wrote him a check for $500 and bought them myself and said now they are mine. He had bought them about five years before thinking that he was going to restore them himself. After five years sitting in the barn, he changed h
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