• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    And then everyone clapped…

    I don’t even know if seed would have been available back then year round, and for something like that “lifetime supply” would be what you used and handed out during planting season.

    But seed isn’t cheap, I don’t think someone would have made up that story if they knew how unbelievable it was. There’s no way he could just grab a 20 pound bag of seed every month. That’s close to $100 today for just grass, not even crops.

    And even if it was pre-tractor and done with a horse/donkey…

    Most farmers would be getting them so close to perfectly straight this would have been impossible to judge.

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      6 months ago

      Also straight row might have been the final challenge and done without a horse, so hand done much harder.

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        6 months ago

        How do you plow without a horse?

        Like, there’s the old joke about hooking your wife up to the plow, but someone/something needs to pull the plow.

        If not than you just use a hoe

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            6 months ago

            Not really.

            They need to be pulled and pushed down to stay at the right depth.

            If you’re just pushing it’s going to nosedive.

            But like, there’s no really a reason to ever try, you’d just use a hoe. That’s literally the entire reason we have hoes. It’s just a pulled plow is way faster.

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      6 months ago

      I hear Israel is handing out free land these days - or, more accurately, will allow you to steal it from the people living there while fascist goons squads backs you up with overwhelming firepower.

      You know… the way settler-colonialism has pretty much always worked.