As a kid is SE Ohio, I worked on a tomato farm for Mr Humphrey. He also had a dairy operation. Late one summer as the tomato operation was winding down, Humpy told me and another kid, Bobby to go over to the silo, climb up the ladder and throw down the "bad" silage. Kenny the hired hand would be on the tractor and he would load up the manure spreader and haul the bad silage away. Then Bobby and I would need to throw down good silage that Kenny would feed to the cows. This was an extra job that only went to the good workers like me and Bobby-or so we thought. This silo had a ladder inside a tunnel going up the side. We climbed up to the top and stood on the the brown silage cap. There was no top on the silo, so by straining we could just barely see over the top and survey the surrounding farm from high atop this silo. We felt like bigshots in the hot August sun hi above the other kids working in the fields in the distance. As we began to throw the bad silage down the tunnel (we couldn't get it over the top) we began to see, no smell, that this was not quite the reward job we originally thought it was. The old silage cap was rotted, slimy and it stank. We worked fast without talking to get down through the bad silage to the good green silage below. Finally we were out of the bad silage and ready to fork down some good smelling green silage...Kenny hollered up and said we were needed elsewhere and that we would come back to get the good silage a bit later. Bobby and I had to go down the ladder in that tunnel enclosure with the slimy, rotten, stinking silage sticking to us as we made our way down to the ground. When we hit he sunlight, we both saw that we were covered in the slimy brown goo. I have never gotton over that smell. My mom told me to spray myself off with the garden hose and leave my clothes outside. I DO love the sweet sour smell of good fresh silage though....Forking that down was always a fun job.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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