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some folk would have you believe. The most 

 hardened "old" farmer of the lot may shake 

 himself awake into a "new" one whenever he 

 will. It's a good deal like "getting religion." 

 We don't leave that to our sons on the theory 

 that we're too old to learn better morals. It's 

 a mistake to argue that only the school-trained 

 youngsters may be modern farmers. The old- 

 timers are dead wrong in supposing that mod- 

 ern farming is made up wholly of a lot of new- 

 fangled notions. It isn't. It's just the old 

 farming with new life put into it. 



You see I can't help quitting my own story 

 once in a while to take up a bit of argument ; 

 but all the time I'm thinking of its bearing on 

 our farm operation. We couldn't get any- 

 where in our farming without an occasional 

 spell of argufying and theorizing. 



We did a lot of it in our fourth year. That 

 was the time when it was borne in upon me 

 that the difference between profit and loss in 

 farming hangs upon a slender peg. The farm- 

 er who isn't minding his p's and q's may make 

 or lose money without knowing how it hap- 

 pens. That's particularly true in what's known 

 as "general farming." The man who's stick- 

 ing to one project poultry, peaches, potatoes 



