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KC

On 2/7/2014 12:03 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 08:13:49 -0500, Poco Loco
wrote:

On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 02:05:26 -0500, wrote:

I have been away from that for 3 decades but I think they dropped all
of that quota stuff that used to be a virtual license for selling it.
I think you could always grow all you wanted but you were locked out
of the auction for anything that wasn't in your quota.
That was some family's most valuable asset, passed down from
generation to generation and you saw little patches of tobacco behind
every old farm house all over southern Md..

Harry is around there now, maybe he knows what happened to the old
quota system.

Wonder if the red barn was a tobacco barn?

Every one I ever saw was unpainted but I think they tore all of them
down to sell the lumber. In the 70s and 80s yuppies (and their foo foo
interior designers) were paying enough for authentic heartwood "barn
boards" that you could afford to tear it down and build a new barn.
Unfortunately the wood these days is not as good and you might have to
paint it.

Yup, it was a huge business here for a while... I grew up playing in
those barns... Living life on the beams, 5 stories up where principals
and truant officers couldn't even see you with a flashlight