Posted by Buzzman72 on June 05, 2012 at 09:50:08 from (74.129.196.127):
In Reply to: potatos posted by 5020s rock on June 04, 2012 at 12:53:50:
I have an old letter from my great-great-great grandfather to his sons who stayed back in England when he come over with the rest of his family in the 1840's. The letter is from 1856 or 1857, and he talks of having 75 acres of potatoes growing in the Ohio River bottomland in Southern Indiana...which he reckons "will fetch a good price in New Orleans."
Now, I don't know 1850's farming techniques...but I'd imagine it was all done by hand. So imagine planting 75 acres of potatoes...then imagine digging 75 acres of potatoes. Then taking them down the Ohio and the Mississipi by flatboat. My grandfather told me that they'd take their guns on the boat, and live off the game they shot along the riverbanks, or the fish they caught out of the river. Then they'd sell the potatoes and the flatboat, and catch a steamboat back upriver to come home.
Of course, seeing as how labor-intensive the farming must've been in that day, I can also understand why my great-great grandfather became a carpenter instead of following in his father's footsteps.
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