Posted by rrlund on November 21, 2012 at 07:09:46 from (207.241.137.116):
In Reply to: Re: Childhood memories posted by randallinMo on November 21, 2012 at 06:25:07:
Depends on how you look at it I guess. Working like that,you couldn't afford more modern equipment or more land. I understand the mentality though. I've got no ambition to have any more than I do now and sure don't want any more work.
It's kinda like were were talking at a family reunion one time. A cousin was telling about a big new 4 wheel drive Deere that a guy over east of town bought. I said I didn't know why anybody needed something like that. Another cousin said "to work all that land". I asked why he needed to work all that land. He said "to pay for that new tractor".
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Today's Featured Article - Self-Starting Tractor - McCormick 10-20 - by Francis J. Robinson. I remember it very clearly even though it was almost 50 years ago and I was only about seven years old. My Dad had purchased a new Ford-Ferguson tractor and basic set of implements when he started farming just about the beginning of W.W.II. It was considered a pretty nice outfit for their 70 acre central Indiana grain and livestock farm. Dad spent several years during the war testing aircraft engines at Allison Engineering in Indianapolis working seven days a week on a twelve hour night sh
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