When I was young, it was still possible to scratch out a living in my area with a 100-125 acre hill farm. Yes, it was probably necessary to raise tobacco (unless the wife was a school teacher) as well as milk at least a few cows and raise the corn and hay needed for the cows. Many such farmers in my area supplemented their income by operating a school bus (which they owned and maintained) in order to pay the mortgage on the farm. Many, many small farms in my area were paid for by the cash income from a school bus contract.
Changes in federal regulations since the FDR administration (I'll avoid the pros and cons of such regulations, herein.) resulted in the failure of small 100 acre tobacco/dairy farms once so common in my area, even if the the owner had paid off the mortgage and still got up at 4:00 to put the chains on the school bus (In those days, they did not close school for a forecast or even 4" of snow.) before milking the cows.
For better or worse, it's the world in which we live.
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Today's Featured Article - Old Time Threshing - by Anthony West. A lovely harvest evening late September 1947, I was a school boy, like all school boys I loved harvest time. The golden corn ripens well and early, the stoking, stacking,.... the drawing in with the tractors and trailers and a few buck rakes thrown in, and possibly a heavy horse. It would be a great day for the collies and the terrier dogs, rats and mice would be at the bottom of the stacks so the dogs, would have a busy time hunting and killing, all the corn was gathered and ricked in what we c
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