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To: Ish who wrote (99433)2/8/2005 9:54:15 PM
From: Snowshoe  Read Replies (1) of 793706
 
>>I'd still like to see some bona fides about Ag experience<<

I worked on a Wisconsin dairy farm in 1973. It was a very wet spring and I got the tractor stuck 13 times while plowing and discing. The first time it happened I spun the wheels into the mud up to the axles, but I quickly learned to ease off on the power as soon as I knew I was stuck.

The tractor was noisy and the diesel smoke was awful. I bought hearing protectors. In midsummer I spent a few hot scratchy, itchy days stacking the first hay crop in the barn loft.

One day I stopped plowing at noon to eat my lunch by a patch of prairie remnant where rocks were piled in the middle of the field. That little piece of prairie was blooming with native birdsfoot violets, and it was the prettiest damn sight. The flowers of violets are highly edible, and I ate some with my peanut butter sandwich. (Warning: lots of other flowers are poisonous!)

The farmer had a bull named Cedric. One day we moved him into the pasture where he was soon surrounded by cows, patiently waiting their turn.

The farmer's wife ran off with the guy who drove the milk truck. There was a drought later in the year and the corn crop failed. (I know this sounds like a country western song, but I swear it's true!)

-Snow
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