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

[charliehill]

Yep Ron, they show up way inland from here too and I still don't know how 
they get to the field so fast.  Even if someone told them farmer Joe is 
going to start plowing this morning they still have to fly a long ways and 
they often showed up before you even get your land layed out good.

Charlie
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> That's nothing.  The darned things show up in Western Iowa as soon as
> you turn up the soil.   I haven't figured that one out either and we are
> alot farther than 10 miles inland!
>
> Moldboard plowing with a pull type plow would be one of my favorites,
> and after someone invented those darned power take-off driven rotary
> stalk cutters I found at new least favorite thing to do.  Cold, windy,
> and very dusty!  I sort of liked it when we got snowed out of that job!
> And I hate snow.  Especially the 21 inches that keeps blowing around
> outside this past week.
>
> Ron Cook
> Salix, IA
>
> charliehill wrote:
>> Don, I never could figure out how the sea gulls knew.
>> We were at least 10 miles inland from any body of water where the sea 
>> gulls
>> would normally hang out and 30 miles from where you are sure to find 
>> them.
>> When the first farmer stuck the first mold board plow in the ground in 
>> the
>> spring (actually winter here) the sea gulls would show up in a matter of
>> minutes.
>>
>> Charlie
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