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men and the traders do for most of these farm- 

 ers, and so we're saving the profits and rake- 

 offs on a lot of exchanges back and forth, don't 

 you see?" 



He saw but dimly. " Oh!" he said. "You're 

 not intending to do commercial farming, 

 then?" Fixed habit of mind is hard to break. 

 I've talked with other men, farmers included, 

 who held the same opinion of our enterprise. 

 One business man in town solemnly argued 

 that we couldn't possibly be making a success, 

 for the reason that the farm wasn't showing 

 any "turn-over." To his way of thinking, the 

 couple of hundred dollars' worth of stuff we'd 

 sold represented all the business we had done 

 for the year. Even if that was all profit, he 

 contended, it was a starvation income. 



"Starvation be jiggered!" I said. "We're 

 living on the fat of the land. Here's the point: 

 Our 'turn-overs' are being made inside our own 

 farm fence lines, instead of in town. We're 

 turning our grain and hay and forage into milk 

 and eggs and butter and meat, instead of sell- 

 ing them and buying milk and eggs and butter 

 and meat. You simply can't beat our system. 

 It would have to come to the same thing in the 

 end, wouldn't it just feeding the family? 



