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farmers conspicuously lack: merchandizing ability 

 and showmanship. 



This revelation of family history discloses the 

 reasons why I shall not go into commercial farm- 

 ing. The mere fact I own forty acres of land and 

 extract therefrom part of my living does not qual- 

 ify me for the commercial category. To switch 

 Medlock Farm over would require more capital 

 than I could afford to risk in such a venture: three 

 or four times what is in it now. But the greater 

 deterrent is that to make a success of commercial 

 farming I should have to devote all my time and 

 attention to it for at least four or five years. 



By the end of that time who can tell? there 

 may be a law against commercial farming. 



