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[Indiana Robinson]

What was the first old tractor show you ever attended?
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I'm pretty sure it was the Rushville Indiana show, in the next county
east of me. I had been to an old threshing show at least before with a
steam engine, a threshing machine, wagons or bundled wheat and a
number of horses. That was at the Indiana State Fair (next county
north west) about 1954 or so. One of the things that sticks in my mind
from that was that my father ruined his shirt while watching (lots of
white shirts in those days) from the drifting mist from the engine
stack. It never would wash out.
I attended a later show out on a farm in Johnson County (next county
west, Franklin IN) with a cousin from Chicago. We were about 14. The
big picture stuck in my mind there was that it was the first time I
had seen a team decked out in full body leather strip fly covers.
Those were pretty expensive, still are.



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Have you hugged your horses today?

Francis Robinson
aka "farmer"
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at gmail.com