Posted by oldtanker on December 12, 2011 at 12:12:49 from (66.228.255.223):
In Reply to: Myth Or True? posted by Rdandersom on December 12, 2011 at 07:08:55:
OK maybe I wasn't clear. I don't believe the original story posted.
1. Most of the guys who lost thier farms had liens on everything to include the home place so they would have had nothing to farm with.
2. Horses were expensive back then and most farmers didn't know much if anything about driving a horse for field work.
Yea a smaller guy can farm and make it. But most of the time everything will be used to include his car and pickup. He's going to have to have a very tight life style as he isn't going to have much money for play. What he isn't spending on the farm he's going to spend for basic things.
No one said that small farm life was easy, it sin't. There isn't much money for frills or toys and there is a heck of a lot of work involved.
Horses can be very expensive to keep when you figure out that even over winter they eat. Allis Chalmers claimed right after WWII was over that it took about 25 acres per horse between hay and grain, bedding and pasture. That is why they said you needed to buy thier A,B,orC tractor......you could they claimed free up 25 acres for pasture for a profitable animal like cattle or for crops that could be used to feed the extra pigs or mike cows or as cash crops.
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