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Blank post experiment-C/P of OP: Love the smell
susie
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Love the smell of: Fresh mown hay. I also appreciate not having to stack hundreds of square bales on a wagon in the Missouri heat. My dad baled hay for other farmers as I was growing up. I worked my butt off. Started as a driver of tractors pulling a wagon when I was 8 or 9. Graduated to wagon or truckbed duty, stacking hay and then unloading onto the elevator for lofted barns or just tossing into barns.
Daddy hired hands to help as well. They got paid. I didn't. I have plans to eventually put a few head of cattle back onto the farm.
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BTW, good luck with the cattle initiative!
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Our treat was to head to Current River afterwards for a good swim with some fishing thrown in for dinner if we were lucky. Take a can of lard, a cast iron skillet, and a sack of taters. Yum.
Brad Steele
Fresh cut hay, fresh tilled soil, and right after a rain.
The smells of growing up in the country.
The smell of a barn of tobacco being cured and a warehouse full of it just before a sale . Fresh cut grass and the smell of dirt just broken up after a long day of riding the tractor
My maternal grandfather raised tobacco before I existed. He had stopped the tobacco and sheep farming before I came along. Cattle, pigs and chickens are all I remember on his farm.
Yes, there is something about a newly busted field. I loved it when Daddy broke out the disc and plow.
Heat on for a day and the place smells of Spring within just a couple of hours!
Same here...me a buddy and our younger brothers...(4 of us) kicked some but bucking bales...We picked the fields we would buck based on field and lot time and the farmer had to have a skid trailer...We could do 900 - 1000 bales a day...for a nickle a bale and a hot meal... Wore out a pair of Levis every weak...(but back then they only cost $3.75!)
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