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To: blackdog
New home building is to be one home on 40 acres. That's too small to farm in a meaningful way to the economy...

It wasn't too small when tobacco was grown in Maryland. 40 acres was a big tobacco farm.

31 posted on 11/01/2011 11:21:24 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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That’s because the tobacco farmers could only grow what they had government allotments to grow. It’s very tightly controlled. A tobacco allotment is a coveted thing.


36 posted on 11/02/2011 4:35:54 AM PDT by blackdog (The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
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