Posted by sixtyninegmc on February 13, 2012 at 13:39:14 from (216.67.74.6):
In Reply to: Huh. posted by JayinNY on February 12, 2012 at 23:54:40:
Ah, hate to disappoint you, but no. When I say these old boys did not accept subsidies, I mean it. The one mentioned that is renting out 33 acres is the only one to ever have a cash tenant, and he is also the only one I would suspect of being dishonest. He is also an engineer, not a farmer, the rest all homesteaded there ground and cleared it.
I may have been misunderstood, I did not mean to suspect any of these old farmers of being dishonest, except maybe with themselves. I can see thinking you have opened more ground than you did when you did it from scratch with a JD B, and later a JD 440 crawler in one oldtimers case. Most of these guys came back after the war, and seemed to want to do there own thing and be left alone, and government subsidy programs killed off every dairy in this town (including my grandpas), so none of the these old boys were gonna take a handout. We may be the furthest north, but we are definately a bunch of rebels.
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