Farming isn’t a simple life, just letting you know from the start.

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.

Sicily gives you derelict houses

Russia, they're trying to populate Siberia.

Any countries still giving free land for expats?

That depends. Do you have a time machine?

As long as you aren't Native American, ironically, the homestead act still applies to about 10% of the country

I mean, it's a lifetime if you've got leukaemia

"Seed" in 1910 was not even close to what it is today. This was also likely cereal grains and maybe some pulses. What you could buy was basically grain from the previous year.

Also the local Coop's/grain sellers would absolutely give free seed to new immigrants anyways. It was just smart business for them. The new farmers had no place else to sell the harvest but to them. More production = more money for them. A few pennies invested that yielded dollars for years.

He didn't say 20 pounds. He said 20 bags. Could have been any size.

You sorely overestimate how easy it is to get a trained animal to walk in a perfectly straight line. They do not get magical perfect-line-walking powers just because they are animals.

Ah yes.

Nothing ever happens.

Username checks out. You give too many my guy.

Seed back then would have just been unprocessed grain. I don’t know about prices in the early 1900s, but the current price of unprocessed wheat is around $230 per metric ton. That’s around $0.10/lb and would put 20 lbs at around $2 given wholesale bulk pricing.

Not even in the ballpark of the $5/lb you cite for grass seed.

Yeah but shrinkflation means these days it comes with 20% less nutritional* particles.

*combustible

Some cities are still working on increasing them though. Just don't go to the premium mountain venues though, or you get 20% less air per air!