When my father published the very first issue of his market letter in 1970, he borrowed the name Cabot from the farm where we lived. His father had bought the farm in 1941 (the full story is on the Cabot website) and in 1948 he bought a new tractor to replace the horses used on the farm. The tractor was a Ford Model 8N, perhaps the most popular tractor ever sold. Approximately 524,000 were produced from 1947 through 1952. Here’s a picture of me and my brother Rob sitting on it. I’m the kid with the curly hair. Designed...