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To: Ilaine who wrote (22807)	8/18/2002 1:17:21 AM
From: Joan Osland Graffius	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Cobal, The crops here in Minnesota do not look good. The seed did not get into the ground until late because of cold weather and rain then the temperatures were to hot during the period when the plants should have filled the seeds in the heads or pods and the corn pollination was non existent. The crops in eastern North Dakota are ok. I guess it depends on what one defines as large when it comes to farms. I suspect the crops in the South produce more dollars per acre than the west. The west was homesteaded by immigrants from Europe and sharecropping was not the economic method of farming. I am thinking of Ohio, Indiana, Ill, Minnesota, Iowa, ND, SD, etc. Getting rid of the Indians was important for this expansion to occur. An interesting story as one my relatives wrote a book of his family that homesteaded in North Dakota and the mother had written to relatives in Europe of Indians with weapons coming to their home (one room wood shed) and looking into the cradle where she had her baby. This was during the time of sod busting so they were the first European farmers in the area and at that time Indians were still a threat. I would have never made it in this environment - these folks were tough. I have no idea what happened in the South. I assume the South had very different economics coming out of the Civil War until the 1920's as the land had owners for many generations prior to this period as well as went through a transition from slavery economics to a system without free labor. My grandfather homesteaded in North Dakota in the late 1800's and each farmer owned and operated this land. The farmer that had larger holdings of land generally had large families which provided the free labor. There were 12 children in my fathers family and all were needed to run the operation. We did not have crop failures during the 1920’s or 1930's but there were some farm failures as my grandmother told me stories of driving her carriage to the county court house (20 some miles) to see what land she could buy for taxes. This old gal was smart. Joan