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Life is Simple
Life is Simple
The Midwest Cattleman · October 26, 2023 · P5

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Jerry Crownover never met nor talked to him, “Sixty bales ought to do me, plied, “It was running when I
until he happened to show up but I’ve only got an old tractor parked it a year or two ago.”
at the local general store one to trade for it.” He added that the tires were
day, when I was there. Even at the tender age flat now, but that they had also
“You’re that Crownover of fifteen, my trading ears held air when last parked.
boy,” he said. perked up and I started quiz- That night I told my dad
A bit puzzled, because I zing the gentleman about about the offer, but he didn’t
didn’t recognize him, I cau- the kind and condition of the seem too interested in the
tiously answered that I was. tractor. I learned that it was a swap, so I asked him what
“Your daddy got any extra 1940-something Allis-Chalm- price he was putting on the
hay he could part with?” ers, Model B. When asked if hay. He said, “$0.60 per bale.”
“Yes, sir.” it was in running order, he re- continued on page 14

Missouri Opportunity Sale

The first tractor I ever Missouri Opportunity Sale
owned came about through
a convoluted transaction of
money and hay, when I was
only 15 years old.
There was a reclusive old Sunday, December 3, 2023 • MSF Fairgrounds in Sedalia, Mo • Noon CTS
man, who lived in a decrepit,
mobile trailer, just up the road OFFERING OVER 70 LOTS
from our home. He usually
Frontier
kept a cow or two on his acre-
Jalapeno 973E973E
174E
age, and I had always seen a Frontier 174E Jalapeno
C&L RR KJ
tiny, old tractor sitting beside TH TH C&L RR KJ
his house, rusting and collect-
ing dust, whenever we passed
by. Even though he lived less
than three miles from us, I had

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