[Farmall] On Topic - Merry Christmas!!

[Aaron Dickinson]

Corn and some beans were in around here, but we only got about 6" down here
south of Lansing and it was gone in two days, the flowers have recovered
nicely. I have photographs of a snowstorm about ten years ago when the
leaves were completely out on the trees, we lost allot of tree limbs because
of it. It looks really strange to see all of these green trees covered with
snow and several inches on the ground. I think that snow came in very late
April or early May.
Aaron Dickinson
Mason, MI
1940 Farmall A
1946 John Deere B
1952 Farmall H
1952 Ferguson TEA-20
1953 John Deere 40 Crawler (in pieces)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Hass" <gkhass at avci.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 12:09 AM
Subject: [Farmall] On Topic - Merry Christmas!!


> Thursday and Friday I planted my corn.  As I am a fairly small farmer, I
> grow 26 acres.  Everybody in our area was very worried about moisture as
we
> had gone 28 consecutive days with no precipitation.  I planted the corn on
> an open tractor in just my shirt sleeves.  However, moisture is no longer
a
> concern, as over the weekend we received 16" of snow, with a total on-the
> -ground accumulation of 12" with drifts as deep as 4-ft. in places.  All
> but 2 schools in the county were closed and over 3000 people were without
> power.  I had hoped in the last two days it would disappear, but the
> temperature has been around 50 with no sun.  As of tonight (Tuesday, 4/26)
> myone shed door still has 2 feet of snow against it, and the county drains
> still have about 3 feet of the stuff along the edges of them.  This is the
> worst snow storm this late in the year, according to the weather people,
> since 1883.  About 2/3 of the snow has melted off the fields.  Our new
> concern is: will the seed rot, or will it survive and sprout?   Lawn
mowers
> are not real high on our priority list at the present.
>
> Greg Hass
> Bad Axe, MI
> Located in the middle of Michigan's Thumb approximately 120 miles north of
> Detroit.
>
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