[AT] Tractor club now decorating for a show

Mattias Kessén davidbrown950 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 19 11:36:28 PDT 2008


Have they had the same weather as we have??

Mattias

2008/8/19 Larry Goss <rlgoss at insightbb.com>:
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> Farmer, I'm sorry to change the subject on you, but I've been thinking about you all day after going through a Polish town near the German border that was having a farmer's fair all through their downtown.
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> As mascots or symbols of what was going on, they had decorated all the routes in and out of town with super-size dolls dressed as farmers and farmers wives.  Each doll was made up of three large round hay bales.  Two were stacked vertically on end for the body, and a third was laying down on top of them.  One end of the top bale was decorated as a face with large pieces of cloth for the eyes, nose, and mouth, and the rest of the body was draped and wrapped with large pieces of cloth for the dress, apron, bib overalls, etc, and the wife had a colorful bedspread as a babushka.
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> IMHO, it was a clever idea, and I thought of you because of the work you do at Connor's Prairie.  Others on the list may have seen this before and use it at shows, but this was a first for me.
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> I've been tempted to take picture after picture along the route in the last couple of weeks because it is harvesting season over here for a number of grains, but I decided not to, simply because there is just so much going on.  There is everything from combining, mowing, and baling, to old-fashioned fertizing (manure and lime) and lots of moldboard plowing and a little minimum till soil preparation.  The equipment is all Bison, Claas, Ursas, Volvo, Peugeot, and a few other European brands with models ranging from the mid-60's to present day.  I have seen just one, John Deere unit, and it was a very late model.
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> What corn I have seen growing looked pretty sick   It looked like it suffered from early drought and then got drowned with too much water too late in the season.
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> Larry
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