[AT] Some ads from the 11/22 Lancaster Farming

[Herbert Metz]

Yes, Charlie. 
In north Ga there are breaking plows, turning plows; don't remember name
for plow for digging potatoes.
In KS we had moldboard plows and disc plows.
Herb

> [Original Message]
> From: charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Date: 11/23/2008 11:39:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Some ads from the 11/22 Lancaster Farming
>
> I think you guys are all correct.  Just depends on what you are talking 
> about and who's talking.  Names vary by region and area and sometimes
just 
> by knowing what someone is talking about when they use the same term for
two 
> different things.
>
> Kind of like the word plow.  You plow ground in the spring and you plow
corn 
> but it's not the same thing or the same kind of plow.
>
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve W." <falcon at telenet.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 7:46 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Some ads from the 11/22 Lancaster Farming
>
>
> > Larry Goss wrote:
> >> Steve, I won't argue about it, but the last I knew a fly net covered
> >> the whole body of the horse.
> >>
> >> It wasn't always possible for poor farmers to buy or afford a matched
> >> team, so spreaders were often used when the horses were mismatched by
> >> size or when one horse was ill and couldn't pull its share of the
> >> load.
> >>
> >> Larry
> >
> > I probably just learned it wrong. I was taught that a fly net was the
> > headpiece, the one you refer to we called a fly blanket.
> > Not a big thing. Unless you're the horse.
> >
> > Spreaders around here were pin adjustable for that reason. Also to allow
> > for items that tended to pull to one side (like a sickle bar) by
> > adjusting the spreader you could lessen the side load on the team and
> > make it easier for them to pull straight.
> >
> > -- 
> > Steve W.
> > Near Cooperstown, New York
> >
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