FARMING AND FOXHUNTING 



Glass " I must give a little heed to the question of 

 marketing the produce. When you are in a small 

 way retailing the goods to some extent can be a 

 very profitable business, but a few boxes of tomatoes 

 here and perhaps a few there, entails an incalculable 

 amount of time, labour, expense and bother. Since 

 launching out to a real effort and covering some four 

 acres with glass, this marketing business must be 

 reconsidered. Arrangements are well forward to 

 start a bi-weekly auction sale in the local town of 

 Swindon. This is an entirely new venture for us 

 and for Swindon. Whether it proves a success or 

 otherwise we shall at least have handed over our 

 troubles of sales, and more particularly the collection 

 of the cash to a well-known firm of auctioneers. 



When one leads a busy life how helpful, indeed 

 how necessary it is to be surrounded by a good staff 

 of willing workers. I count myself particularly 

 fortunate in this way, no man could be served better. 

 My present farm and general manager, Jim Pressy, 

 relieves me of much detailed organization and thus 

 gives me time to exercise my energies in other 

 directions. It is no good clogging your life with 

 too much detail if you can get along easily without 

 it, neither can one, or at least I can't, consider the 

 idea of retiring from business, the fact is one cannot 

 afford to, either metaphorically or monetarily. 

 Those who do are at their wit's end to know how to 

 occupy their time, amusement soon tires, and then 

 where are they, just lonely and miserable. 



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