[AT] Are we alive?

[drupert at seanet.com]

Charlie,

I have a friend who owns a car dealership and she's told me about some of 
the risks that business confronts her with.  But no matter it seems that I
can always reply "but yes the farmer has all of those risks to face and
the weather besides.  And to the farmer weather doesn't just mean the loss
of a days business but can mean the loss of a whole years worth."  Sorry
to hear how your' experience with farming went.

Dudley


> Dudley,  that reminds me of the last year I farmed after my dad died.  I
> was
> a senior in high school.  I planted the whole farm (small farm) in soy
> beans.  They were the old variety that grew a big bush.  I plowed those
> beans until they were too big to plow and then I walked them pulling the
> remaining weeds by hand (the whole farm, row by row) until the beans
> lapped
> over the middles and formed a solid sea of soy bean tops.  It was a
> beautiful crop.  Then it turned dry in August.  When it was time to pick
> my
> beans they bushes were full of big nice pods but the beans themselves were
> the size of BB shot.  The whole crop went in one single axle grain truck.
> We didn't have a combine so I had to give the custom operator 1/4 or it
> might even have been 1/3 of the crop.  What I had left paid the fertilizer
> bill and the tax on the farm for the year.   I was headed off to college
> the
> next year so that was the end of my farming.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Cook
> Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2012 8:09 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Are we alive?
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> Dudley,
>      Exactly right!!!!  The hot dry got the peas here and my potatoes
> are shooter marble size.  Need to be just a little larger so I don't use
> up so many.:-) I am not sure about the carrots as I have not looked at
> them.  We have been eating beets for about a week and I am afraid I will
> have them all gone too soon.  Love those things.
>
> Ron Cook
> Salix, IA
> On 7/14/2012 6:10 PM, drupert at seanet.com wrote:
>> ...
>> Nothing quite like new potatoes and peas
>> creamed together.
>>> Ron Cook
>>> Salix, IA
>> Ron, that reminds me of one of my favorite garden dishes.  When I had a
>> garden the peas would usually be cominng on about now.  The potatoes
>> would
>> be marble to golf ball size and the carrots maybe 2 to 3 inches ...
>> creamed together that was a dish hard to beat.
>>
>> Dudley
>>
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