Posted by John in Utah on April 10, 2016 at 20:08:06 from (73.65.252.68):
The post below about baggers on combines and the arduous work they entailed caused me to reflect on farm work, in general, as it moved into the so-called mechanized age. In west Texas where I grew up, farms were entirely mechanized by the beginning of WWII. However, there was still plenty of physical labor to be done with the production,harvesting and disposition of most crops. One I recall with mixed emotions was growing, harvesting and feeding forage sorghum. My dad planted many acres of red-top cane and another sorghum variety folks called "High-Gear." This stuff was cut and bundled with a corn binder. It then had to be picked up and put into "shocks" (stooks) to dry. Those green bundles with heavy heads of grain on top were a load for a 14-year old kid. After several weeks of drying (time for the mice and crickets to eat many of the binder twines!), it was then thrown onto a wagon, hauled to the stack yard and stacked. Then, throughout the following winter (as we fed and fattened lambs for market), it was pulled out of the stack, again loaded onto a trailer and hauled to the trusty A-10 John Deere hammer mill and ground and blown into a bin. Finally, we ended this ordeal by twice daily forking quantities of the ground sorghum into a small wagon where it was hauled into the feed yard and put into the troughs. Every last stalk of this stuff was handled at least 5 times--by hand--before it got to the sheep's mouth. The sheep loved it, by the way.
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