Living in a rural area is something I've experienced most of my life. I'm accustomed to seeing large tractors ahead of me on the FM roads. It's necessary for the farmers to move their equipment from one field to another, when the work needs to be done. Naturally, the drivers who are behind them are scowling at them for being slow and in the way of traffic. I'm sure they are in such a hurry with their own lives and world they can't realize that these farmers are part of what keeps our nation in needed food supplies.
The farm machinery they use is a dire implement utilized by all farmers, whether they are owners or laborers. Each piece of farm equipment is used to do certain jobs necessary for the production of crops and conditioning of the soil for later planting.
The local rural area where I lived was known for it cotton and grain crops. We have a working cotton gin and grainery in our small town. The freight trains come through here often and stop to pick up loaded grain cars to take across the states to processing plants. In the same trip they drop of empty cars to be loaded with more grain held in the huge silos waiting to be shipped. I haven't noticed the traffic of the cotton, from the "gin" once it's been processed into huge bales. I have seen many trailers filled with the boles of cotton, that has been gathered by the farmer's and their equipment.
I can even remember sitting under a trailer, when I was young, while my grand parents would pull cotton and place it in the big sacks they towed on their backs down the field rows. When I grew older, they took cotton ducking and made me a "cotton sack" half the size of theirs so I could pick cotton to make a little money for my Saturday town candy run. Going to town on Saturday's was something to us back in those years. Having some jingle in our pockets made us feel good. The candy was great too and times were considered hard back then. We had no idea how this world would become so commercialized the way it is today.
The farm machinery they use is a dire implement utilized by all farmers, whether they are owners or laborers. Each piece of farm equipment is used to do certain jobs necessary for the production of crops and conditioning of the soil for later planting.
The local rural area where I lived was known for it cotton and grain crops. We have a working cotton gin and grainery in our small town. The freight trains come through here often and stop to pick up loaded grain cars to take across the states to processing plants. In the same trip they drop of empty cars to be loaded with more grain held in the huge silos waiting to be shipped. I haven't noticed the traffic of the cotton, from the "gin" once it's been processed into huge bales. I have seen many trailers filled with the boles of cotton, that has been gathered by the farmer's and their equipment.
I can even remember sitting under a trailer, when I was young, while my grand parents would pull cotton and place it in the big sacks they towed on their backs down the field rows. When I grew older, they took cotton ducking and made me a "cotton sack" half the size of theirs so I could pick cotton to make a little money for my Saturday town candy run. Going to town on Saturday's was something to us back in those years. Having some jingle in our pockets made us feel good. The candy was great too and times were considered hard back then. We had no idea how this world would become so commercialized the way it is today.
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