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My Little C

By Glen Christoffersen

15 Winston Way, Redwood City, California 94061

I was born and raised on a farm in western Iowa, near Council Bluffs. In the spring of 1947, my dad decided that I was old enough to help with the field work on our 250 acre farm, so he went to the Charles Rief Implement Company in Council Bluffs, where he purchased a new Allis Chalmers model C, serial number C39764, for $921.43. (I was 13 years old at the time.) What a memorable time! Now I was a grownup, helping Dad with our farm work and participating in the local threshing circle, which was soon to come to an end.

After a few short years, I moved on to other things at Iowa State College, but the little C continued to perform faithfully until about 1970, when it was parked in the corner of the machine shed and forgotten. My brother Paul still lives on the "home place" with his wife Leana and their son Davin. ...

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