Well I started out with one tractor the first crop I planted for myself. It was JD "G". I "rented" a neighbor's 75 acres. I was a freshman in high school. I had a 3x14 pull plow and a 10 foot drag disk. Used my Uncle's pull type Blackhawk planter. Cultivated every acre three times. That is why to this day I hate JD "G" tractor. Try steering that beast with a four row mounted cultivator without power steering.
I do not know how I got things done then. Sleep was an optional thing that's is for sure. I still worked at the feed store but on reduced hours. Usually got home at 6 PM. Would plow/disk until 1-2AM. Sleep to 4:30am and get up so chores where done before school. Did my home work during class. Still managed to keep my grades up. A local fellow wanted to buy the corn. HE bought the corn for $1 a bushel standing and he combined or picked it himself. Corn was bringing $1.20 in town. It made around 90-100 bushels. It worked well for us both. The years after that I had a rotation set up (corn/oats/hay) so only had 25 acres of each crop to do at one time.
When I started farming for real I only had the JD "G" and a Ford 6000 diesel. For 4-5 years I raised 150 acres of corn and fed every single bushel to hogs that I furrowed to finished. Those two tractors were all I had then. Getting them running to do feed grinding and such in the winter was fun.
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Today's Featured Article - Old Time Threshing - by Anthony West. A lovely harvest evening late September 1947, I was a school boy, like all school boys I loved harvest time. The golden corn ripens well and early, the stoking, stacking,.... the drawing in with the tractors and trailers and a few buck rakes thrown in, and possibly a heavy horse. It would be a great day for the collies and the terrier dogs, rats and mice would be at the bottom of the stacks so the dogs, would have a busy time hunting and killing, all the corn was gathered and ricked in what we c
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