A couple months ago we visited the railway museum in Lancaster, PA. We stayed in cabooses surrounded by the fields of the Amish. It was romantic to see the powerful draft horses at work, but it was far less romantic to smell manure every hour of every day.

I do hope the smell doesn't get right inside their homes.

Imagine having to shovel up, load, and spread that stuff all the time, every day.

Manure can spread disease, as well. No, if I were a farmer, I'd go for the tractor, thanks very much.