[AT] The last question I had on my list for December.

[Al Jones]

A good friend of mine always said a pretty tobacco field was one where the
only thing left was the stalks.  The prettiest tobacco field was one where
the stalks had been disked up.  :)

Al


> [Original Message]
> From: charliehill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Date: 12/31/2009 7:02:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] The last question I had on my list for December.
>
> I'll just give you a general classification of jobs.  I always liked the 
> fall work, picking corn and beans (although we hired that done) bush
hogging 
> stalks in the fall. Cutting in the crop residue and planting cover crops. 
> It was kind of like the end of a long "day" when you were almost finished
up 
> and headed home with your  rewards in your pocket.  The  spring work was
the 
> beginning of a long hard day.  The only thing I ever enjoyed about
tobacco 
> was working with the dry tobacco and cutting the danged stalks in the
ground 
> at the end of the year.  Same thing I guess.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 11:24 AM
> Subject: [AT] The last question I had on my list for December.
>
>
> > Either as you were growing up or now, which tractor job did you like
> > best and which the least?
> > -
> > I probably liked raking hay the best. We had a great Ferguson 3 point
> > rake and you could go any direction and raise up and hop over windrows
> > without messing up the pattern. Next I probably liked drilling small
> > grain.
> > -
> > My least favorite was early cultivation when the corn was tiny and you
> > had to drive at a mind numbing crawl... Next was anything in a huge
> > dense cloud of dust.
> >
> >
> > -- 
> > Have you hugged your horses today?
> >
> > Francis Robinson
> > aka "farmer"
> > Central Indiana USA
> > robinson46176 at gmail.com
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