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production. As does the dairy, with its concomitant 

 of veal. 



When all human needs were accounted for I 

 still had to convert livestock schedules into stock 

 feed plantings. For in 1932 I was looking forward 

 to complete self-sustenance: I wanted to be sure 

 that if necessary we could produce our own stock- 

 feed. The fact that the roof of the world did not 

 fall in, that the monetary system, the economic 

 and social fabrics did not disintegrate completely, 

 making it possible to carry out the boughten-feed 

 policy, was just so much velvet. 



All the original scheme, in fact, has been al- 

 tered and corrected from time to time. Like any 

 sensible set of rules these were made to be broken 

 whenever desirable. Most of the changes have been 

 the result of nature's shoving in her oar. Such an 

 unpredictable phenomenon as the large prepon- 

 derance of cow over bull calves, for instance, has 

 imposed rearrangement on both the dairy and the 

 meat programs. Miscalculation and improvement 

 in practice have also contributed their share of 

 motivation to the changes. As when I found that 

 two pigs per year are not enough for a family 

 of four; or as the fruit and vegetable canning pro- 

 gram has been edited to keep pace with improved 

 production of "winter keepers" and raw winter 

 greens. But once the basic plan was set up there 



