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Bv DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News StafT Writer
“I in an old cowhand
h com the Thornton Hirer. .
Thornton River doesn't have the same ring as Rio Grande but they’re cowboys all the same at Eldon Farms.
An increasingly mechanized and sophisticated farming industry has dropped the harness from mules and draft horses and put them out to pasture. Tractors, combines, balers and threshers now do the jobs of planting and harvesting while horse-drawn plows and wagons rust and rot in forgotten corners of abandoned barns, almost hidden by layers of spider webs.
But in cattle operations, there’s still a place for fourlegged machinery that eats oats instead of guzzling gas. “Eldon Farms has used horses all along,” said Steve Leake, top cow puncher on the 9,200-acre spread that covers a big chunk of southern Rappahannock County.
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