Inherited 160-acre property
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Around 1918, not long after the inheritance
Dan mortgages the land to start a dairy herd
Borrowed $800 against the land to purchase eight cows; the herd failed to produce a profit.
Soon after the dairy venture around 1918
Foreclosure costs Dan the inherited farm
The bank foreclosed after one missed regular payment. Dan refused to sell birch trees for pulp to repay the loan. The passage says he lost everything for want of $200, but subsequently says he retained the sawmill.
During the foreclosure dispute
Floyd and Clarence leave home
The brothers left after Dan rejected their plan to cut trees to save the property and told them to go if they did not like his decision.
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