Posted by Dick2 on March 10, 2014 at 15:40:50 from (174.17.227.248):
In Reply to: feature night tonight? posted by Larry@stinescorner on March 10, 2014 at 15:28:10:
My grandfather passed away before I was born. I've been told that he was an advocate of using purebred bulls for herd improvement back around 1918 - 1928. The county agent would pick up grandfather in his buggy and they would hold meeting in local schoolhouses for area farmers.
It was common practice in those days for farmers to keep one of their own bull calves to use as "cow fresheners" - which resulted in inbred "scrub" offspring.
Grandfather designed and made an overshot stacker before he left Iowa. JD heard of it an bought the patent rights from him - and then told him that he couldn't make one of his own because they now owned the patent. After he moved to ND, he thought that they would never hear about it so he built his own, plus one for my dad and an uncle. We used that overshot stacker until dad bought a Case hand-tie wire baler in 1947.
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