SOME CONCLUSIVE COMPARISONS 185 



This, to me, is the crux, the climax, the essen- 

 tial raison d'etre of the part-time experiment. My 

 business is a small one. What I take from it as 

 salary can be nay is in a lean year an important 

 factor in the total cost of production. No matter 

 how well buttressed any business may be, after it 

 has operated in the red continuously for two or 

 three years it feels the slightest strain. While it 

 would be an exaggeration to say that without the 

 help of the home farm it would have been impos- 

 sible for me to pull my business through those 

 lean years, yet the occasion when that could be 

 true is not hard to imagine. It may happen yet. 



To make the history of the Medlock Dollar a 

 little clearer I have drawn up a table: 



No "adjusting" has been done to these figures to 

 allow for the rise in all costs for the shrinkage in 

 the value of the federal dollar, in those four years. 

 If it had, then a corresponding adjustment would 



