[AT] in cab refrigerators?

[Don Bowen]

On 10/10/2011 5:45 AM, Mike 1countryguy wrote:
> Oh, the stories of 16 hours (plus doing the milking) are true.  Saw my dad do that and he taught me!  Working ground with a (new) 1944 MM UTU by the glow of the muffler so the lights didn t attract bugs (no, cab, just straddle the seat) and usually stood to cushion the bumps).  Now, I wonder why my legs hurt?  Back then the farm paid for itself (without an of farm job).

We took over the farm when my grandfather died.  My father bought an old 
JD A that was the hardest starting tractor ever.  After a few years we 
bought a new Ferguson 30 followed by a new MM UBU Special Diesel.  I 
drove both many hours.  You just sat out there in the elements.  We put 
a heat houser on the MM in winter but usually by the second or third 
year of mice it was mostly useless.  Standing over bumps or just to 
change position was normal.

I recently read some papers presented at a conference of the American 
Agricultural Society in Davis, CA.  There was one on land ownership in a 
California Valley.  Early settlers in this area bought land from the 
railroad and a few homesteaded.  The next group bought or rented 
improved land.  Many worked for wages to get a start renting then were 
able to buy their own place.  But by the twenties it was becoming more 
difficult and by the fifties it was almost impossible to pay for land by 
working the land.

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Don Bowen           KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html