[AT] Broadcast/frost seeding clover?

[carl gogol]

When can you and your young seeder come to Syracuse?  We got about another
month of consistent frosts up here.
Carl Gogol
Manlius, NY
(2) AC D-14, AC 914H
Simplicity 3112 & 7116
Kubota F-2400
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From: "Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Broadcast/frost seeding clover?


> This thread triggered a memory of planting cereal rye when I was 8
> years old. We had a model A Ford truck (made from a cut down sedan). It
> had a small high flatbed on it. The seeder was a former hand carried one
> that originally had a cloth bag. The seeder was bolted to an old horse
> drawn mower seat spring. The seat spring was bolted to the trucks hitch.
> The cloth bag was replaced with a large lard can with a hole in the
> bottom. My father drove the truck all over the field and I sat on the
> back of the truck turning the crank and watching the hopper. I would
> yell when it got low and he would stop and I refilled the lard can hopper.
> I still have that old seeder, hasn't been used in 50 years.
>
> -- 
>
>
>
> "farmer"
>
> I was going to mention something cute about my failing memory but I have
> forgotten it already...  :-)
>
>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson at svs.net
>
>
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