Posted by rrlund on March 20, 2016 at 15:33:24 from (162.250.24.184):
In Reply to: Farms come and gone posted by Al Baker(pumpman) on March 20, 2016 at 14:41:22:
Yep,like Bruce said,it usually takes three generations. The first generation builds it,the second generation maintains it,the third generation looses it. I can think of two places just like that here. One,the old guy used horses right up until he died in the mid 60s. He owned the mortgages on at least 11 houses when he died. At one time he was holding the paper on every milk route that hauled in to Carnation. He loaned for cars,farm equipment,pretty much ran a bank out of his house and the dairy barn. It's all gone now. The other one,the guys Dad had a half way decent place,but he went out on his own after WW2 and built that place up to the biggest thing around here. It got down to his grandson. The boy ran it in the ground and lost everything in about two years.
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