Grandaddy on dad's side where the home farm is was born in 1916. The farm is an 80 acre and now on approximately the 251st year of being farmed by a direct family member. He quit school in the 8th grade when his dad died of what we later found out was diabetes in 1929. Being the oldest son in the family, he took over the farm at that time. He farmed with horses and mules until he bought his first tractor in 1940 which was a new Farmall H on rubber. He said it was light years ahead of looking at the transmission of a mule all day, but the H on the tractor didn't stand for heaven either as it took 2 men a half a day to change it over from 1 setup to another with cultivators, pickers, and such. He said he would start at first light with the mules and plow non stop till dark and maybe cover 3 acres a day with a 1 bottom breaking plow. Also said he could thump a clod of dirt across where he'd been all day working. He later added the Farmall 100 new that we still have along with a new 140 and a JD model 50 which was a problem child. I think that one broke him from the JD fever of ever wanting another JD. More new tractors were added as necessary as time went on. He continued on till his health declined in the early 90s. By that time dad was a partner and me a helper and have continued on.
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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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