I reminded him what a miserable he11hole that place is and that I had given it up 5 times in the past,but always took it back when the other guys walked away after just one or two tries. I reminded him too that his dad had come to me and told me that if I'd give him $23 an acre,pay the rent every year and do something with it,that was fine with him. I also told him that if I sold off cows because I couldn't feed them,that would be the end and I wouldn't take it back again. I said that if they wanted me to work it next year,they'd better let me know before I sold off that many cows.
I told him that if somebody else tried to farm that swamp,I wanted to be sitting there with a six pack to watch the show. His great grandmother told me 40 years ago that the only way to work that place is to live there. I do,and I've made it work,but it's an awful short growing season. I usually can't plant corn there before the first or second week of June,then it'd better be chopped and off of there before the fall rains start or you won't get it. It'll flood,then get ice on the water so if you try to pick it,you break through the ice and go down in the mud. I got it in the day after Memorial Day this year,but it flooded and I'm still waiting for it to dry up so I can replant it.
I told him right up front that I won't lie for him if anybody asks me what the ground's like. It's gonna be entertaining.
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