For Teddy52food: Yes, I remember both the marking sled and the hand planters. My father had a two-row IHC horse-drawn planter, which he converted to use with a tractor by cutting back the tongue. He didn't need the sled, but it sat around the farm for years until it probably ended up as ant food. The hand planters (we called them "bill picks"--was that term used anywhere else than in NJ where I came from?) were used in the garden for sweet corn, and to plant along the headlands where the machine wouldn't go, as I remember. We're going back about 70 years, guys! I can't remember what I had for breakfast, and I always forget at least one thing on what my wife sends me to the grocery store to get, but jeez, can I remember all that farm stuff! My wife didn't come from a farm and can't really understand why I love to remember these things, although she doesn't condemn it--says, "I see you really loved the farm, didn't you?" One of my delights is going to Google Earth and looking at satellite pictures of the farm where I grew up, no longer in the family, and at the farms of neighbors and relatives I knew, at my grandparents' farm, and so on. If you like to do this, all you have to do is enter a nearby town name. If you know the roads and the neighborhood, you can easily find these places. You can get a sort of computerized 3D view, too, by clicking on one of the icons at the top right of the picture. Another very interesting site is Historicaerials.com, where you can find aerial photos going back to about 1930. I was actually able to find my grandparents' farm as it looked before a major highway took parts of it by eminent domain--all the buildings were razed in 1947. Historicaerials.com won't let you print, and their labels are all over the photos. You can buy the right to download, and I just might break down and do that. My father let his buildings deteriorate, and I was able to see that farm "from the air," as it looked in 1940 and some years after that, and as I remembered it.
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