[AT] Farm show observations/ Farm Memories

[David Bruce]

I remember "pegging" a field after a rain.  I was small "helping" 
grandpa and grandma (so I had to be younger than 8), barefoot and 
squishing the mud between my toes and loving every minute.
One advantage here was with the clay soil after the rain the bucket of 
water isn't needed.  Funny what you think is great fun when that age.

We had a couple of the hand transplanters but I don't remember them ever 
being used.

David
NW NC

charliehill wrote:
> I think the other birds you spoke of are Cattle Egrets.  Did they have just 
> one little patch of light brown under their neck maybe?
> 
> Oh yeah we had a two man "setter".  Another brand was Bemmis.  My dad was 
> 6'6 and he had to modify one seat on the transplanter so he could fit in it 
> to "drop".  That is one job I never did was drop plants.  I don't know just 
> why except that my dad was very particular that it got done just right and 
> usually he and one of his farmer friends would do it together on each others 
> farms.
> 
> Yep, we used real wooden pegs.  You take a 5 gal bucket full of plants, 
> another 5 gal bucket full of water and a peg and walk the rows looking for 
> "skips" or plants that died.  Somefolks used those big ole hand 
> transplanters that looked like the Tin Man's Leg.  I hated those things and 
> we didn't have any of them.
> 
> Charlie