Ok, this is the short, short, short, SHORT, version. I've always wanted to farm since I was old enough to follow the tractor tracks. The cheveron pattern in the ground interested me for whatever reason & once I figured out where it came from, I was hooked. My Grandparents on my Ma's side still farmed 'till I was about 5 or 6. There was many a ride, for me, on the machines that made those neat tracks. The interest eventually switched over to the equipment & the rest of the farm. It was then that I learned how to use hand tools, cut the lawn on a riding mower & drive a tractor(8N) for the first time. This all came to fruition after they retired from farming, so I always had hopes of continuing where they left off. I paid plenty of attention to agriculture as I grew up & did what I could to learn what I could on the few small farms around here through work. Somewhere around high school, interest if farming began to subside. My Grandparents passed when I was 16 so the positive reinforcement no longer existed to ease me into farming. Also, stupid kid things like partying began to sound like fun.
Once out of high school, I went with a factory job vs farm work. One dosen't get a lot of time to drink & socalize while farming & it was pretty easy to do a bunch of brain-dead BS all week & get a paycheck to liquify. I went that route for about 10 years. One day, I went out behind the pines & noticed my thresher was rotting away at an alarming speed. Could have sworn I had just parked it there a few months ago, when I realised that it had been "temporarilly" parked outside for about 8 years. By this time, the outbuildings on my Grandparents (now Aunt & Uncle) farm were in serious disrepair. So was my life.
That discovery is what led me to quit drinking. Breaking my back & not being able to drink at all on my med's cemented sobriety in place. After a couple years of healing, I came to the conclusion that the only thing that was keeping me down & my back from not healing was my being static. Once I realised labor in moderation is helping my back, I became a lot more physically active. My big break to operate a little corner of the farm came when our septic mound had to be put in the field adjacent to the house. The rest is current history.
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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