[AT] here I go again

[Ron Cook]

Dean,
     Thanks,  I always was a story teller.  Windy, some folks say. 
Anyways, where I grew up, we actually had loess hill ground to farm 
too.  Not much more equipment required other than a top planter and a 
rotary hoe.  The cultivator got put on the '41 John Deere A the same 
time you folks did.  It worked the hill ground while the other tractors 
were on skeleton wheels working the listed crops with the lister 
cultivators, or low-downs as we called them.  Many called them 
go-devils.  Then the other tractors went back on rubber tires and the 
front mounted cultivators went on,  high-ups, is what we called them.  
By then it was July and a 4th gear pass through the corn and it was 
considered laid by.  I always enjoyed that high speed last cultivation.  
It seemed like you were actually getting something done.
     By the way, the crops really look nice up there in Sioux County 
this year.  There is, however, still plenty of time for hail.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA