[AT] Oil dry / Rural King / And even more O.T. stuff

[jtchall at nc.rr.com]

My grandfather fed the fodder from his shredder to his cows. He blew it 
upstairs in the barn and mixed up salt water in a sprinkling pot and kept it 
moistened with that. I guess the salt gave it flavor like a salt block so 
they would eat it.

John Hall


-----Original Message----- 
From: Gene Dotson
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 5:33 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Oil dry / Rural King / And even more O.T. stuff

    My Amish neighbors all favor the MM model D shellers. In a good day if
they have the corn available and wagons to load, they can do as much as 700
bushels in a day. They kept me busy hauling organic corn to the chicken
farm. They mostly use twin cylinder Honda engines of 18 to 26 horsepower.
Some run with stationary diesel engines. Two teen age boys can shovel
continuous and never over work the sheller. They do a good job of shelling,
but leave a lot of bees wings in the corn. Was in Kenton a couple weeks ago
and the farm we stopped at were running a corn shredder that was doing a
good job of cleaning the corn. Fodder was shredded and blown into the hay
mow for bedding. Wagon load was then headed to the hammer mill to grind for
dairy feed. The power unit was a MM U unit. Horses had a hard time pulling
the wagon across the icy driveway.

                        Gene