Festus

This is our dog his name is Festus (of of Gunsmoke) this is when the big ice storm hit so this picture is a couple weeks old, but its a pretty good one. He is a German Shorthair. He would be a relly good bird dog... if we would have trained him when he was young. All he does now is run aroud in the barns and around all our trees and chases the birds, the only time he stops it to eat and sleep! He is not the sharpest tool in the shed, but he has become part of the family! Comment if you think I should dig up a more recent picture!

1941 Farmall H

This is our Farmall H, we inherited it from my great grandma. This picture was taken a few years ago, after a 5 year restoration. Before it was covered in rust, had no decals, and the metal was all bent and dinged up. We did a coplete restoration, we had everything taken down and all wore out parts were replaced, we sand blasted it, and put new tires on it. It looks like a show tractor but we still farm with it!

A few facts on the Farmall H

- Produced from 1939 to 1952, became the top selling individual tractor model of all time in North America with over 390,000 sold!
- You could get it with steel wheels or with rubber.
- In 1940 the starting price for one with rubber tires was $962

Something new

I am in 4-H and I have been taking a steer to the fair for 7 or 8 years now and every year I have taken a Black Angus. Just like everybody else. I believe part of the reason for that is due to the fact that Black Angus is about all that is around our area (southern Michigan). So this year I decided that i would mix it up a bit and take some thing different from the norm. I decided i would get a Brangus, sure they still are 5/8 Angus but I didn't want to stir things up too much and I wanted something within my price range. I also have some books on cattle and one book said that they gain on average about 4.11 lbs. per day! But it does not say what type of feed they are feeding so I doubt I will be able to achieve  results, but I will certainly try to! I had to drive 2 hours to get him, but that was the closest breeder. It was hard to tell the difference from him and the rest of our herd, which is mostly Black Angus, but there are a few features that are different. I am told when he gets bigger, he is around 800 to 900 lbs. right now, that he will start to look more different from the others.