The Younger Generation

[Bird]

Of course we have quite a number of articulate, intelligent young members on TBN. And I thought some might be intested in this article from the Denton Record-Chronicle this morning.
Tractor Factor: Youths' interests steer fair

 

[CompactTractorFan]

Neat! :thumbsup: I wish they had stuff like that around here...

 

[jeffreythree]

Nice article, I missed that one. A kid down the road used to show something each year, but now they just have a horse. It was always fun watching him practice showing when I drove by in the evenings. Denton county has been growing fast, and I wonder how long the rural and ag part has left before the developers get going again.

 

[RoyJackson]

Very good article, Bird...thanks for posting it!

 

[RoyJackson]

Neat! :thumbsup: I wish they had stuff like that around here...

Have you ever been to the Pennsylvania Farm Show, CTF? It's in Harrisburg.
Here's a Link.

I haven't seen anything quite like the contest in Denton, but local dealers usually have some tractors on display.

 

[jinman]

Well, I grew up in Denton, and tractor maintenance and tractor driving have long been practiced in the local 4-H Clubs as directed by the County Extension Agents. I never participated, but I knew many people who did. I remember towing trailers and backing them through obstacles was a common contest activity. The 4-wheel trailers used for cotton harvesting and bale wagons were a "double handful" to back through an obstacle course. I had one buddy who was pretty darn good at it. Evidently so was my oldest brother who won an all-expense paid trip to the National 4-H Roundup in Chicago in 1950. I was just toddler, only 3 years old. I checked my scanned images from a family album and found this newspaper story with photo from The Denton Record-Chronicle.

BTW: My brother is now deceased. He passed away about 4 years ago.

 

[Bird]

I was in the 4-H club in Healdton, OK, when we had a 1940 John Deere L tractor, but I only showed Berkshire hogs and some chickens at the fairs and fat stock shows in Ardmore (Carter County). I don't remember any kind of contests like that described in Denton.

When I was doing gas leakage surveys, we spent about 3 months in Sayre, PA, and on July 30, 1993, we went to Troy, PA and spent the afternoon at the county fair, eating sausage sandwiches, catfish & butterfly fries, gyro sandwich, fudge, and lemonade. We watched the sulkey and wagon timed races around traffic cones, backing up, stopping at a mailbox, etc. Then we stayed for Tim Rivers' high diving mules; 3 mules that dived into 6 feet of water from a 30 foot platform (and one dog, too). No tractor contests, but the horses & mules put on a very interesting show and we thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon.

So I know Pennsylvania has some good fairs.

 

[CompactTractorFan]

Have you ever been to the Pennsylvania Farm Show, CTF? It's in Harrisburg.
Here's a Link.

I haven't seen anything quite like the contest in Denton, but local dealers usually have some tractors on display.

Nope...We were thinking of going at the last minute this year, but by time we were going to go it was over. We'll make sure to mark it on the calendar next year. :thumbsup: