A welcoming gift
A welcoming gift
And then everyone clapped…
I don’t even know if seed would have been available back then year round, and for something like that “lifetime supply” would be what you used and handed out during planting season.
But seed isn’t cheap, I don’t think someone would have made up that story if they knew how unbelievable it was. There’s no way he could just grab a 20 pound bag of seed every month. That’s close to $100 today for just grass, not even crops.
And even if it was pre-tractor and done with a horse/donkey…
Most farmers would be getting them so close to perfectly straight this would have been impossible to judge.
…
How do you plow without a horse?
Like, there’s the old joke about hooking your wife up to the plow, but someone/something needs to pull the plow.
If not than you just use a hoe
Not really.
They need to be pulled and pushed down to stay at the right depth.
If you’re just pushing it’s going to nosedive.
But like, there’s no really a reason to ever try, you’d just use a hoe. That’s literally the entire reason we have hoes. It’s just a pulled plow is way faster.
Also, the farmer steers the plow direction and depth.
“Seed” in 1910 was not even close to what it is today. This was also likely cereal grains and maybe some pulses. What you could buy was basically grain from the previous year.
Also the local Coop’s/grain sellers would absolutely give free seed to new immigrants anyways. It was just smart business for them. The new farmers had no place else to sell the harvest but to them. More production = more money for them. A few pennies invested that yielded dollars for years.
Ah yes.
Nothing ever happens.
I don’t recognize your username, but Amos Burton is a badass!
I wish they’d start making The Expanse TV series again.
No spoilers, please, I’m still trying to catch up in the books to find out what happened after the show ended.
Seed back then would have just been unprocessed grain. I don’t know about prices in the early 1900s, but the current price of unprocessed wheat is around $230 per metric ton. That’s around $0.10/lb.
Not even in the ballpark of the $5/lb you cute for grass seed.
Poor wording I guess.
I know farming is hard work, but I’d be happy with my own plot doing my own thing.
Life right now is not simple and I got my dream job and I still don’t think I’ll be happy. Owning my own plot of land would be wonderful and unload a lot of anxiety.
Sure. I’m a software developer but it’s just not fulfilling for me; like I enjoy the problem solving but it’s just not something I think I would be happy still doing in a decade.
I actually have a desire to help other people more and do something meaningful. Like teaching kids these skills, kids that don’t have an opportunity.
Indeed it is.
What do you teach.
The developer of Neofetch archived the project and has taken up farming
Keep in mind farming is also quite expensive nowadays and you won’t be able to survive off the yields by farming your great grandfathers way.
Clarksons farm hams it up a bit but does touch on the real costs and effort that goes into modern farming. He just finished season 4 and affirmed again that a normal farmer would be bankrupt in his situation, his farm only survives due to his being rich from other revenue streams
Any countries still giving free land for expats?
That depends. Do you have a time machine?