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Don't Throw Anything Away! It Might Work With An Engine

By Harold V. Green

RR 1, Box 63, Avoca, Iowa 51521

It's always somewhat difficult to start writing a story, so I suppose I'll start by stating that I was born in Marshall County, Kansas. Our 80-acre farm overlooked the Big Blue River Valley, near a small town of Irving, Kansas. The year was 1931 and some will remember that that year was still influenced by the Great Depression.

When I was 6 years old, I attended Prairie Ridge Country School District 55. It was a one-room school, to which I walked a mile each day. My teachers have told me in later years that I was always greatly interested in anything mechanical and especially gas engines and tractors. My father was a horse farmer and I enjoyed it immensely when our neighbors on either side would work their fields. On the one side was a "regular" Farmall with its smooth purr which...

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