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Homesteading

Big Muddy rancher

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Clarence wrote
"I believe the purpose of this board it to let everyone tell his side of the story. the first thing we need to solve a problem is to know where everyone stands, and to be willing to look at both sides.

SH, Haymaker, MRJ and Big Muddy all do make some good points. First we have to remember, there will always be change. We are a capitalistic society, money is most always in charge. I wouldn't have it any other way as this provide an incentive. Still our country has always looked out to help the underdog. We have always tried to help find opportunities for him and lever the playing field. This requires some give and take.

Some of you have mentioned the homestead days, I know some feel the homes stead program as a failure. I don't, it gave the little fellow who was standing at the end of the road with no place to go, an opportunity to either fail or to succeed. They say it is better to try and fail then to not try and succeed.

My grand parents, and great grand parents were homsteaders. Looking at it from todays standpoint they may not have been successful. They did jot really stay on their homestead long. My Grandfathers were not old enough to file on a homestead when they came to Nebraska, they had to wait a few years. The grandfather on my Dads side was said to have had only the fourteen dollars he needed to file in his pocket. You can not always put much stock in some of the stories you are told, but it was said a snow storm came up and he had to stay in town. He did not have the twenty five cents to spend the night in the livery barn, but was told to write his name on the barn door along with the rest."

Clarence I moved this as we were tangled in Haymaker's and SH's post.
I think we probably don't really disagree just see things differently.
There are some farms still going strong that were homesteads in this area. BUT they are not still a 1/4 section. They did prosper and grew swallowing up other farms. In the more arid regions of our area it was a mistake to force farmers to break the land and there have been millions spent trying to get it back to grass.
My point was that when the government get involved it doesn't always improve the situation. :)
 

HAY MAKER

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Big Muddy rancher said:
Clarence wrote
"I believe the purpose of this board it to let everyone tell his side of the story. the first thing we need to solve a problem is to know where everyone stands, and to be willing to look at both sides.

SH, Haymaker, MRJ and Big Muddy all do make some good points. First we have to remember, there will always be change. We are a capitalistic society, money is most always in charge. I wouldn't have it any other way as this provide an incentive. Still our country has always looked out to help the underdog. We have always tried to help find opportunities for him and lever the playing field. This requires some give and take.

Some of you have mentioned the homestead days, I know some feel the homes stead program as a failure. I don't, it gave the little fellow who was standing at the end of the road with no place to go, an opportunity to either fail or to succeed. They say it is better to try and fail then to not try and succeed.

My grand parents, and great grand parents were homsteaders. Looking at it from todays standpoint they may not have been successful. They did jot really stay on their homestead long. My Grandfathers were not old enough to file on a homestead when they came to Nebraska, they had to wait a few years. The grandfather on my Dads side was said to have had only the fourteen dollars he needed to file in his pocket. You can not always put much stock in some of the stories you are told, but it was said a snow storm came up and he had to stay in town. He did not have the twenty five cents to spend the night in the livery barn, but was told to write his name on the barn door along with the rest."

Clarence I moved this as we were tangled in Haymaker's and SH's post.
I think we probably don't really disagree just see things differently.
There are some farms still going strong that were homesteads in this area. BUT they are not still a 1/4 section. They did prosper and grew swallowing up other farms. In the more arid regions of our area it was a mistake to force farmers to break the land and there have been millions spent trying to get it back to grass.
My point was that when the government get involved it doesn't always improve the situation.
:)

well I be damn,you may have a lil comon sense after all,funny thing about goverment intervention,when you are benefittin its a good thing when you're not and someone else is,it aint worth a damn.
good luck
 
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