[AT] Old tractors and hay

[Francis Robinson]

    I guess it is only natural that haymaking is of interest to people. 
Man's first domestication was the dog (the cat will never happen)  ;-)   and 
I'm sure his second was some grass eater like goats or sheep. Hay is a 
"very" old crop... It is also a pretty universal crop around the world. It 
is funny to me that so little of it is grown in my area now since when I was 
a kid (a few years ago) almost everybody here grew hay. Now there are almost 
no fences, almost no livestock and little hay. Most of what hay I sell ends 
up in horses and goats (another critter that was almost extinct here). There 
are a lot of horses here now. In the late 1950's there were almost none. 
Most of the ones that were here then were harness racing horses. Now most 
are pleasure horses.
    Kind of funny how the tractor made horses almost extinct and now one of 
the big jobs of old tractors is feeding a rapidly growing population of 
horses that don't work.   ;-)

--
"farmer"

When you reach the end of your rope
 tie a knot and hang on...

Francis Robinson
Central Indiana, USA
robinson at svs.net