Posted by John Harmon on October 05, 2010 at 17:05:53 from (174.26.165.238):
In Reply to: Plowing terminology posted by IaGary on October 04, 2010 at 20:09:32:
My dad never had a square field on any of his farms being located along a river.He sort of plowed in a square.Around and around the outside edges of the field until he got some where close in the center that he could go from side to side on a headland at each end then he would plow out the headland.He would plow back into the dead furrow for about 5-6 rounds and disc all dead furrow depressions out. Some years he would start the plowing on the opposite side of the field and end up with the dead furrow crossing the last one at 180 degrees. Corn fields only got plowed every 4 years as a rule. He followed a corn,oats hay,hay and pasture rotation for many years.Some of the hilly fields were terraced and were farmed around the hill.Corn was never much of a cash crop but was fed mostly to the Dairy Cows,Duroc Hogs and Chickens.Making feed was a twice and some times a three times event every week with the old hammer mill never given much rest. He wore out 4 hammer mills and 2 Artsway feed mills that I can remember.I left home in 1955 and sort of lost track of what went on at the farm but this much I can remember about plowing and such.
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