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Morgan Co. Illinois | I was talking this fall to a landlord of mine that has just a few acres that join another farm I rent asking him about the location of the one room school he attended. He started telling me about helping his father pick corn. He said his father had one tractor and a pull type one row side elevator IH picker. That meant they had to pick four rows by hand around every field before the tractor and picker pulled in. "We would pick a load, unhook the wagon, unhook the picker, hook on the wagon and pull it to the hoist, and unhook the tractor to run the elevator. We didn't get many loads a day, and it seemed like every twenty acres had a hedge around it." At least that was better than shucking it all by hand and scooping into the crib. We walk in the shadows of better, tougher men and women. | |
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Farming the Hard Way
