Re: 1959 truck, i should have never parted with he

Posted by Bill in NC on November 21, 2004 at 11:17:26 from (24.163.24.255):

In Reply to: Re: 1959 truck, i should have never parted with he posted by ericlb on November 21, 2004 at 07:38:47:

Yeah, there's lots of folks out there that can't part with
possessions and then they just let those possessions rot, rust or
erode away to nothing. Psychologists say those folks are the
exact opposite of executive types that make a decision right or
wrong and just plow straight ahead.

Sometimes being stuck in the mud procrastinator pays off. My
mother's first cousin looked like Joseph Stalin (big brushy
mustache to cover up his missing top teeth) and was bass
ackwards in his farming. He never changed anything if he could
help it. While everyone else in the county was using hybrid corn
seeds, he was year-after-year using his prior year's harvest for
his planting seed. Some of you may recall the corn rust that
swept across the country in the late 1960's that was particularly
damaging to many hybrid corn varieties. Cousin Emmett was
contacted by his County Agent in late January about his field of
"antique" corn which was still standing on stalk!! The field
probably had a yield of less than 50 bushels per acre. The
upshot of the matter is that Cousin Emmett got a fortune for his
corn and did not even have to harvest it (the corn company
bought it on stalk and harvested it by hand). The corn was
immediately shipped to Mexico and was rushed into off season
pollination/breeding work with existing hybrid varieties. The
gist was that modern hybrids were susceptible to this rust but
that 1940's era corn varieties were immune).

I'm bad to procrastinate and keep far too much junk around, but
often wonder if Cousin Emmett's particular field of corn is still
genetically present in today's corn. So, if you've got the room
and don't need the money, maybe it's not so bad keeping old
stuff around.

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