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Miller: things in the funniest way, but I get them done. After 

 all, that's all I was interested in, getting them done, 

 and it's the same way that I have operated many things 

 in my life. I don't attack anything orthodoxly. I 

 contend experience is the greatest teacher, experience 

 builds the beautiful pyramid on top of an education; 

 down here is only the foundation. And unless you have 

 experience all the books in the world and all the edu- 

 cation in the world won't help you unless you merge 

 the experience onto the education that you have. And 

 I don't care what you do, if you don't know how to do 

 it you can't make a good life out of it. 



Baum: It looks like you devoted at least a month of your 

 time, 15 hours a day, to the apricot — 



Miller: I devoted a full month to a month and a half. I never 

 came back to the office, but I was in touch with them 

 by my radio and I could talk to them later on when I 

 got my two-way radio, all the time. 



Baum: Did you have to do the same intensive kind of work with 

 any other crops? 



Miller: No, this was the only place. 



Baum: The other crops didn't seem to be in any danger of labor 



