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Ah, the country air!!
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Feb 19, 2021 19:32:52   #
SteveR Loc: Michigan
 
Ain't it exhilaratin'!!!



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Feb 19, 2021 20:00:56   #
DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA
 
I used to get two 18 wheeler loads of chicken extract (what comes out of the chicken) every spring for use as fertilizer. Gave the farm a nice country rhino-ambiance.

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Feb 19, 2021 20:32:40   #
kenArchi Loc: Seal Beach, CA
 

Lucky it's not an ice blow.

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Feb 20, 2021 07:19:04   #
cmc4214 Loc: S.W. Pennsylvania
 
Smells better than smog!!

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Feb 20, 2021 08:24:52   #
jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana
 
DirtFarmer wrote:
I used to get two 18 wheeler loads of chicken extract (what comes out of the chicken) every spring for use as fertilizer. Gave the farm a nice country rhino-ambiance.


“Chicken extract.” Never heard it called that before.

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Feb 20, 2021 09:55:25   #
DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA
 
jaymatt wrote:
“Chicken extract.” Never heard it called that before.


There is an old story about Harry Truman. He would call any proposal he didn't like "a pile of manure".
His staff went to Bess and asked her "Couldn't you get him to stop calling things manure?"
She replied "Oh, no! It has taken me 30 years to get him to call it that!".

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Feb 20, 2021 12:50:42   #
SteveR Loc: Michigan
 
DirtFarmer wrote:
There is an old story about Harry Truman. He would call any proposal he didn't like "a pile of manure".
His staff went to Bess and asked her "Couldn't you get him to stop calling things manure?"
She replied "Oh, no! It has taken me 30 years to get him to call it that!".




Somewhere between Dallas and Colorado is a large holding area for cattle right next to the highway (not interstate). I mean huge. I can't imagine mustard gas being much worse.

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Feb 20, 2021 12:54:31   #
Vince68 Loc: Wappingers Falls, NY
 
Thats a good one. It also gave me a chuckle thinking about one of the first times many years ago, when family from the Bronx came up to visit us, and one of my cousins said to their father, "Dad, I thought you said we were coming up here to visit and smell the fresh country air... it smells like poop".

There were dairy farms all throughout the county back then, and my grandfather also had a chicken farm too back then, and used to supply our city family with eggs. Good times back then.

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Feb 20, 2021 13:51:50   #
Steven Loc: So. Milwaukee, WI.
 
SteveR wrote:
Ain't it exhilaratin'!!!


Come to Wisconsin and smell our Dairy Air !

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Feb 20, 2021 14:35:19   #
PhotogHobbyist Loc: Bradford, PA
 
SteveR wrote:
Ain't it exhilaratin'!!!


I heard a saying many years ago, "The country air is rich and rare, it stimulates the mind."

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Feb 20, 2021 15:11:10   #
joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA
 
SteveR wrote:
Ain't it exhilaratin'!!!


I love cartoonists who think that way I do Fantastic cartoon

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Feb 20, 2021 20:15:04   #
SteveR Loc: Michigan
 
PhotogHobbyist wrote:
I heard a saying many years ago, "The country air is rich and rare, it stimulates the mind."


The other thing about country air. At 5 a.m. in the winter it's cold as heck to have to get up to do chores before school. I used to say, "better my cousin than me," when we'd visit my Grandparents' farm in KS at Christmas with my Uncle and Aunt just up the road.

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Feb 21, 2021 15:06:30   #
clint f. Loc: Priest Lake Idaho, Spokane Wa
 
Farmers say “ah, the smell of money.”

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Feb 21, 2021 15:39:52   #
SteveR Loc: Michigan
 
clint f. wrote:
Farmers say “ah, the smell of money.”


I'm not sure about cattlemen, but it's always a crapshoot, so to speak, with farmers. Between the weather and the changing cost of commodities, the individual farmer walks a tightrope.

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Feb 21, 2021 16:04:03   #
DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA
 
I farmed for 30 years. Made a profit for 26 of those years. But there's a big difference between making a profit and making a living.

Something on the order of 80% of the farmers in this country hold a second job or more to make ends meet.

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