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Article: Joy blossoms in the fallow season.(The Home Forum)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- November 27, 2000
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California's Sacramento Valley rarely freezes in winter. Farmers work the soil through this season to have it ready for early spring planting.
I drove a tractor in the northern Sacramento Valley that fall, winter, and spring. Every field I worked was large. I pulled a chisel plow, a disc, a harrow, or a land plane all the way down the field, turned, and did the same thing going back, over and over for 10 hours, sometimes for 12 hours. The hardest part of the job was to get through the workday without shriveling up from boredom.
A tracklayer, the type of tractor that runs on steel treads rather than on wheels, has no steering wheel. It pulls ...