One of the bigger events in the history of Adams Co,Ohio was held the summer of 1957 north of Peebles-the World's Plowing Matches. It was well promoted in the area newspapers,including Cincinnati,and drew a big crowd. Here in Clermont Co,the Soil Conservation COMMITTEE chartered a couple CROSWELL buses to haul farmers to the event. I was 18,and I expected huge tractors competing to see how much they could plow in an hour, but instead,it was smaller tractors,going very slowly,pulling plows with many adjustments, going very slowly,trying to see how straight they could plow,and how much of the grass they could completely turn over. We farmed on a busy highway, [Ohio RT 125]and if you didn't plow straight furrows,passing farmers would kid you all summer. But plowing seems a lost art today. Besides the plowing,I remember a competition of Border Collies working sheep. And I met a future OHIO STATE frat brother,who was running a demonstration on just how easy it was to tip one of the old JOHN DEERE tricyle tractors for OSU's Ag Equipment Studies Dept..My wife's grandfather had one of those tipsy old tractors on a hilly farm.They killed many a farmer. ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]