It was so cold riding those mounted pickers in Iowa, and it was hard to put on enough clothing and still be able to get on the picker. A "Heat Houser" was out of the question, so you had to just drive and tough it out. My uncle once said "It's such a cold job that for every cup of coffee I drink to get warm I have to get off the picker and relieve myself of three of them." The sting on your face from dirt blowing off the rear tires because of those strong fall/winter northern winds was so much fun. Sometimes the tractor would catch fire, and then the flames would drop down and the field was quickly blazing away, then you had to run like crazy (no cell phones then) to get to a phone and call the fire dept. by the time they got there the tractor/picker was totalled and lots of acres were lost. It was not uncommon in those days to see farmers without a thumb or a couple fingers missing because they thought they could unplug the picker before the machine grabbed them. Everytime I think I might want to drive a picker again in the upper midwest, I go lay down until the thought goes away.
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Today's Featured Article - A Lifetime of David Brown - by Samuel Kennedy. I was born in 1950 and reared on my family�s 100 acre farm. It was a fairly typical Northern Ireland farm where the main enterprise was dairying but some pigs, poultry and sheep were also kept. Potatoes were grown for sale and oats were grown to be used for cattle and horse feeding. Up to about 1958 the dairy cows were fed hay with some turnips and after that grass silage was the main winter feed. That same year was the last in which flax was grown on the farm. Flax provided the fibre which w
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