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Originally Posted by Gary Laudermilch
I am surmizing that the gas rationing and diminished male workforce led to many, many acres reverting to brushy habitat from mowed fields that existed in 1938.
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Thanks for that lead Gary.
I expect a significant "diminished male workforce" has resulted after each of our wars. Women and children weren't able to keep the farm going for very long after husbands, sons, and 'hired help' were absent from the farm.
It didn't take long after the ol' place was abandoned that buildings collapsed and the fields, meadows, and dooryard grew up in brush and saplings.