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via farmshow.com

Mark Newhall is the editor and publisher of Farm Show, a newspaper dedicated to the quirky side of farming life.

Maybe farming is the real mother of invention.

That’s the conclusion you’d reach from reading Farm Show, a quirky little newspaper published for the past 27 years out of Lakeville.

It focuses almost entirely on new and sometimes wacky equipment, inventions, products, problem-solving ideas, money-saving shortcuts and money-making schemes invented for and often by farmers.

Recent issues, for example, had articles on turning an old school bus into a hay bale hauler, making jewelry from corn, creating a propane gopher blaster and using an oil-filled squirt gun for treating chapped cow teats.

There are stories about an artist who specializes in cow portraits, a lawn mower powered by a jet engine, a train caboose turned into a backwoods cabin and a recipe for squirrel jambalaya.

Diesel-powered motorcycles? Diapers for incontinent dogs? An all-terrain wheelchair? A 40-foot-long bug zapper? Using pitchforks with fondue? Here’s where you can read about it.

Imagine, in other words, a combination of Popular Mechanics, Consumer Reports and Ripley’s Believe It or Not for the combine and tractor set.

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Comments

[dorei.livejournal.com]

propane gopher blaster

I'm not sure if those words should ever go together in a sentence. But at the same time, I'd really like to see a youtube clip of one in action ...

[danlyke.livejournal.com]

Ya mean like this? Rodent Blaster in action.