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In 1974 an American farm had an unlimited free supply of one extremely useful material, and an entire repair culture was built on that single fact.
Wire-tied bales…
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In 1974 filling silo was the loudest and most concentrated week on an American dairy farm.
A forage harvester chopped the crop green and wet - deliberately, which…
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In 1964 a great many American farms brought corn in on the cob and put it into a building with deliberate gaps in the walls.
Those gaps are…
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In 1974 a lumberyard was an actual yard - open sheds and covered racks around a gravel lot, stock stacked by dimension and length, a small office and…
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In 1964 a great many American farm households ran two enterprises that did not belong to the farm.
The hens belonged to the woman of the house, in…
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In 1964 a great many American farms coated the inside of every animal building with lime wash every single spring, and almost nobody now understands why.
It was…