[Farmall] Some tractor show fun...

[Terry Welch]

I think they are going to use the portable engine on the mill next year. The
potato digging is a great thing to see. It really gets the people invoved
and they love it. I knew better and stood out of the way. I was told I need
to have my Cub out there next year.

Terry

Guy Fay wrote:

> Some of the crop display folks at Thresheree had an interesting idea a
> couple years ago that has really taken off: potato digging. We're a
> Labor Day weekend show, so they're ready for harvest. They announce the
> potato digging over the intercom out in the display field, and that the
> potatos are free, first come, first serve. A one row McCormick-Deering
> potato digger is used. The guys have a Cub field day in the spring to
> plant the potatoes and, new this year, sorghum.
>
> Needless to say, in a couple of short years, this has become a popular
> event. Small paper sacks are provided, and the nearby crew report that
> it's quite fun to watch women in high heels out in the newly dug rows.
>
> A photographer from the nearby daily newpaper heard about this and came
> out during the show to shoot the folks out in the field digging.
> Unfortunately, he made a strategic error. He placed himself between the
> main show area and the potatos. When the digging was announced over the
> intercom, he saw the crowd coming, and was taking picutres. However, the
> crowd this year was a bit boisterous, and he got jostled and had to move
> out of the way before he was run over in the stampede. According to
> rumor, he was pretty scared.
>
> The sorghum went well for the first year- it takes all day to cook down
> a batch, so they're tweaking schedules and figuring out sizes of
> plantings and some crop raising techneques to get bigger stalks and more
> juice.
>
> Of course, I wonder when we're getting into carrots, which are a major
> crop a little east of the show grounds. Of course, some city folks would
> then expect us to plant some steers so they could have pot roast.
>
> Guy Fay
>

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