Thats for darn sure. Progress is progress but it isn't always an improvement. We have all the newest most up-to-date hayin' equipment money can buy but still spend more time hayin' than we ever used to when I was young. Most of the "progress" there is just that it doesn't take as many people. Then again, we run twice as many cattle and put up three times as much hay(custom hay for a couple neighbors now) as we did when I was a kid. It's a mean circle- gotta have those extra cattle to pay for the extra land it takes to run 'em and hay it takes to feed 'em, and gotta have that equipment and land to be able to run the amount of cattle it takes to pay for it all...
Bigger? Yes. More advanced? Yes. Better quality of life? Well......hmmmm.....
When I was growing up, from the time I was about 6 or 7, most non-school days were spend on the back of a horse doing cattle work, and on top of a farmall tractor putting up hay and life was good. Dad had time to take us kids fishing or doing other "fun" things quite often. My own kids, at the same age, only knew jumping on a 4-wheeler to work the cattle and air-conditioned cabs to do the haying, and being so busy, haying dawn till dark 7 days a week all summer long that it's a rare occasion we stop to go "have fun". It'd be pretty tough to convince me we have things "better" now.
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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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