Still remember the last summer for our dairy- 1961, I think- I was 12. Kinda sad- I loved the farm, but we just weren"t making it, and the folks figured they could make the FHA payments from their wages if we got rid of the cows. We"d had about 40, Dad was selling them off as they dried up. I was milking, which my mother wasn"t too thrilled about. We were down to about 6 or so, one of which was a big ol" black cow named Dynamite. She had always been fine, but one morning, I guess I surprised her when I checked the milker, and she kicked me right in the teeth. Literally. Pushed the gum way up on one of my front teeth. Considerable blood involved. I knew there would be he11 to pay from Mom, so tried to self-medicate in the barn. I finally got the bleeding stopped, but I still had the cut lip that I couldn"t hide, as well as the blood on the shirt. Needless to say, the Vigoro hit the ventilator, and the liquidation program was revised such that they all went down the road that weekend.
Actually turned out OK overall- they saved the real estate, I had free use of the farm and assembled enough beef cattle to eventually put me through college; dad split the place up into about 6 parcels, built houses on the parcels and sold them, and retired at age 52.
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Today's Featured Article - History of the Cockshutt Tractor - by Danny Bowes (Dsl). The son of a very successful Toronto and Brantford, Ontario merchant, and himself quite an entreprenuer, James G. Cockshutt opened a business called the Brantford Plow Works in 1877. In 1882, the business was incorporated to become the Cockshutt Plow Company. Along with quality built equipment, expedious demand and expansion made Cockshutt Plow Works the leader in the tillage tools sector of the farm equipment industry by the 1920's.
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