"Years ago I remember my father, when he planted corn, he would plant it – years later we listed it which made a deep furrow, – but he would plant it. And when he did he would string wires from one end of the field to the other. And then they had little knobs on that wire. Every time it hit a knob, it would trip the mechanism, and it would drop either two or three kernels of corn. You had to make the rows 40 inches wide because you had to have that [width] for a horse to walk in."
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Harvey Pickrel was born in 1916 on a farm south of York Nebraska. Harvey and his brother helped their father on the farm in many ways. They would harness the horses to the plow and, later on, drive the tractor and plow the fields. When he was old enough Harvey started farming on his own. Harvey has seen a lot of good and bad years out on the farm. And he's seen a lot of changes in the way farming is done.
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