Summer of '59 we put up a bunch of "local" hay (dad couldn't afford alfalfa that year, after the disastrous milk prices in '58) with a Dearborn sickle bar mower on an 8N Ford, then tag-along side delivery rake, then baled with a Case hand-tie baler. Cousin Fred drove the 8N, Dad "shoved the needle"- double channel units that were pushed through the bale with a spring-assisted handle, then wires threaded through. I tied the bales, riding on a seat right behind the hay pickup on right hand side. Cousin Jim walked along with a pitchfork to push hay into the chamber if the going got heavy, because all it had was a wide belt to carry hay in, no auger or fingers. I was 10, cousins were about 12 and 13. I drove the truck (International one ton, about '45 vintage) in the hayfield, because I was too little to buck bales. Many thousands of bales, went well into August, and the hay was pretty much straw by then. That was the beginning of the end for the dairy operation- hay was so poor the cows all but dried up that winter, and they got sold in the summer of '61. In retrospect, Dad said "I always wanted to farm in the worst way, and I expect we pretty much did."
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Today's Featured Article - Tractor Implements and Their Use - by Curtis Von Fange. Dad was raised during the depression years of the thirties. As a kid he worked part time on a farm in Kansas doing many of the manual chores. Some of the more successful farmers of that day had a new time saving device called a tractor. It increased the farm productivity and, in general, made life easier because more work could be done with this 'mechanical beast'. My dad dreamed that some day he would have his own tractor with every implement he could get. When he reached his early sixties
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