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  • From: "Andrews, Shirley F." <SAndrews AT AcademicBookServices.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [Market-farming] Animal power
  • Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 07:16:30 -0400

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-----Original Message-----
From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Mark A
Abner
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 1:07 PM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Animal power

Christina
If I had a good steady mule and a double shovel right now my tiller
woudl
set and rust int the ground. : )I am slowly working to get into draft
animals
again I have a couple of rideing horses but thier shoulders arnt realy
wide
enough to make good plow horses though I will use them as such of I have
to. I
grew up farming with mules and horses would rather be following a good
plow
animal through a feild watching the soil turn up under the plow points
and
smelling the sents or the soil and the plants and the horse sweat than
about
anything I can think of.
I need to make hay this week and have a good machine for my tractor
but
would rather be driveing a team of mules hooked to an old number 9
McCormick
listening to the clickity clack of the cutters and the smell of fresh
cut hay
than the roar and clatter of the tractor and the fumes from teh exaust.
The only advantage to a tractor or tiller to me is that you dont
have to
feed them when they arnt working but if you are liveing on the land and
farming
seriously there arnt that many days when they arnt working and a tractor
doesnt
run to greet you when you head out to the barn or nussle your pockets
looking
for carrots or sugar cubes

Mark

mtlivestock wrote:

> Liz mentioned this, so I will ask. Anyone on this list using cattle
or
> horses for draft power? I would like to get into draft power. I hate
gas
> powered engines due the noise, smell, and the fuel costs!!


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