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Post by coke & comics on Dec 7, 2015 3:07:53 GMT -5
Pre-Crisis, Smallville was on the East Coast (about forty miles northwest of Metropolis) so it's highly unlikely he grew wheat or corn. He may have been a truck farmer, growing produce for the local markets. He also had some livestock, as I recall stories where Superbaby took on an angry bull and had a pet calf. Cei-U! I summon the ol' John Deere! When did they move to Kansas? |
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Post by tingramretro on Dec 7, 2015 4:05:30 GMT -5
I think the farm was a front for a massive Cannabis farming operation in that big barn of Jonathan's. He used to have Clark train his ultraviolet vision on the plants to make them grow better.
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Post by shaxper on Dec 7, 2015 5:29:49 GMT -5
Pre-Crisis, Smallville was on the East Coast (about forty miles northwest of Metropolis) so it's highly unlikely he grew wheat or corn. He may have been a truck farmer, growing produce for the local markets. He also had some livestock, as I recall stories where Superbaby took on an angry bull and had a pet calf. Cei-U! I summon the ol' John Deere! When did they move to Kansas? I think that might have started with the Donner film. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Dec 7, 2015 8:22:02 GMT -5
When did they move to Kansas? I think that might have started with the Donner film. It did indeed (though I *think* the George Lowther novel from the '40s may have placed Smallville in the prairie states). Cei-U! I summon the fantastic farmboy! |
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Post by shaxper on Dec 7, 2015 8:47:05 GMT -5
(though I *think* the George Lowther novel from the '40s may have placed Smallville in the prairie states). Was that the one that Shuster contributed to? |
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Post by Randle-El on Dec 7, 2015 10:45:26 GMT -5
On the TV show Smallville, they were shown as selling organic produce at the local farmer's market.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 7, 2015 12:43:20 GMT -5
The Silver Age Superboy I grew up with had the Kents running a general store in Smallville and no farm. Clark would work in the store after school. They still grew some righteous weed in the back yard however. What else was there to do in Smallville? |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 7, 2015 12:56:51 GMT -5
The Silver Age Superboy I grew up with had the Kents running a general store in Smallville and no farm. Clark would work in the store after school. They still grew some righteous weed in the back yard however. What else was there to do in Smallville? That's what I remembered Pa Kent doing as well. Does anyone know when the change from farmer to storeowner (or vice-versa) occurred? |
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 7, 2015 14:31:45 GMT -5
It just occurred to me today that I have absolutely no idea what the Kents were growing on that farm they raised Clark on. Whatever the writers needed him to grow. Jonathan Kent may have been to farming what Alfred the Butler has become to first aid.  |
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Post by sunofdarkchild on Dec 7, 2015 14:32:25 GMT -5
In The Doomsday Wars it was shown that he was also raising cows.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2015 15:11:15 GMT -5
The Silver Age Superboy I grew up with had the Kents running a general store in Smallville and no farm. Clark would work in the store after school. They still grew some righteous weed in the back yard however. What else was there to do in Smallville? That's what I remembered Pa Kent doing as well. Does anyone know when the change from farmer to storeowner (or vice-versa) occurred? Whole thread on this question:
classiccomics.boards.net/thread/189/superboy-question
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2015 16:09:02 GMT -5
md62 ... thanks for pointing out that thread. I remembered it and couldn't find it. Good call here.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 7, 2015 17:04:13 GMT -5
Yeesh, I contributed much to that thread you linked and totally forgot about it. My memory...slowly...fading away...Where's the create....post ...button?. Anyone see it? What did...I have for breakfast? |
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Post by hondobrode on Dec 7, 2015 19:14:52 GMT -5
Being raised in Iowa, having lived in Nebraska, and now Oklahoma, and having covered Kansas in a previous sales job, I'd say he was primarily growing wheat. That's the predominant crop. There is some corn and beans, but the state crop is easily wheat.
Slam's right. Farmers rotate what they plant year after year to replenish the nutrients. Most farmers does raise either cattle or pigs as well, in case the crops get wiped out.
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