Posted by Howard H. on February 09, 2009 at 20:27:19 from (65.79.213.187):
In Reply to: Re: O/T Farm Subsidies posted by MarkB_MI on February 09, 2009 at 19:37:53:
He was 7 when this very famous picture was snapped of a place about 40 miles from his farm:
He lived south of Stratford at the time, and was six when this hit Stratford:
Our farm is in the lower center of this bullseye:
He was the youngest kid in the family and knew exactly what his folks and sisters went through. I've farmed over old fence rows for years with him, pulling pieces of barbed wire out of tires, from where the dirt storms blew tumbleweeds against the fences, and then they'd bury under the sand several feet deep... So I know firsthand some of the devastation that has left behind for the years since...
Much of the reason the population left was land was practically given away in the late 1800's/early 1900's and many "prospectors" heard fabulous tales of how easy it was to strike it rich farming, so people flocked to the area almost like a gold rush in the very early days.
In those days, you'd be doing good to really take care of a farm of 160 acres, so there were homesteads all over the place everyone with their little plot.
A lot of that land between Springfield CO and Boise City, OK should have never been broken out, so it is good that a lot of it has gone back to grass.
Plus, I was farming 3,000 acres when I got out a few years ago - and I was an average sized farmer for this area. The guy that is farming the land I leased is now farming right at 10,000. So mechanization very naturally and very DRASTICALLY reduced the # of people required to operate the land. ESPECIALLY compared to those days.
Plus, I know of one of the guys that "showed Egan around" here in the Panhandle and he was just as good at self-promotion as Egan wanted to be...
So you get a "windy" guy eager to spin some yarns and an "eager" guy searching for some juicy stories and they both got what they wanted... So what if the truth got stretched pretty bad.
Dad has lived out here all his life, so I'd guess he has more memories of it than Egan ever did...
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