Most of the time I was designing things in my head to make life easier and better. Other time I would do some math problems in my head; I knew the width of the implement that I was pulling so I could figure out how much ground that I was working in a round & how long that took.
That way I could figure out if I would finish the field that day and at what time - and if I could finish it before I ran out of fuel. Having fields 1/2 mile long in the flat land made it easy to calculate things like that.
One day when I was planting wheat, I figured out that I stayed out until it got dark I could finish the 60 acres that I started early that morning. I had planned to quit at 4:30 to go to a banquet, but decided to stay and finish that field.
It started to rain the next morning, so I moved the drill home and washed it out. The rain continued and that was all the crop that we were able to get planted that year.
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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