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money. That is to say, we must be able to get 

 a "going" business under conditions and at a 

 cost that would be justified under ordinary 

 sensible business principles. Anybody could 

 get the results we wanted by an unlimited use 

 of money. That would be a job for a wealthy 

 amateur bent upon a demonstration. Any- 

 body might get the results eventually after a 

 lot of experimenting with this way and that, 

 watching for mistakes and correcting them as 

 their effects cropped up. That would be a job 

 for a man who had retired from active life and 

 had taken to farming as an interesting way of 

 killing time. But to get good results with 

 minimum outlay of time and money that was 

 what we were after. 



Now I swear I'm done with argument about 

 the theoretical end of the matter. I wanted to 

 sum up the problem for you as we faced it after 

 a couple of years of work on the farm, when 

 the first rough jobs were pretty well done, 

 when our land was in condition to begin real 

 production, and when we had had time to get 

 ourselves past the green stage and were able 

 to think like farmers. 



Here's the answer we gave to ourselves for 

 our problem, boiled down to the last word: 



