randy hall said: (quoted from post at 20:46:44 09/22/08) steven a 160 acre farm of 1939 consisted of some woodlands a field for hauling manure on or summer fallow plenty of hay and land for pasture so your probably only going to have eighty acres of plow ground in the spring. i started farming with a super h and a m. if you think you can plow fifteen acres with an h in a day you better be prepared for a twenty hour day.
Well, in the plains of ND, SD, etc. the homestead of 160 acres consisted of nothing but prairie. No trees to be seen until people started planting them - and that would probably not be much more than a shelter belt around the farmstead.
You need to realize that farming 160 acres does not mean having to pull a plow and break 160 acres of sod every spring! Where I'm from in ND they pulled a disc in front of the drill, not a plow.
And as for a 20 hour day - I've put many of those in on the farm, too. Especially during spring's work and harvest. My brother usually puts in a 10-12 hour day working in town and another 4-6 hours on the farm (sometimes times are switched if work is slow in town).
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