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The nipping the rabbits gave the plants did them good. They're growing with a 
vim AND, all the bloom being cut off, they're spending all their time growing into 
bushese More important than a few berries. 
To bring you up to date on progress on gross income - lst year $100, 2nd year 
$150, Srd year $850, this, the 4th year $1606 plus a growing inventory. We'll make 
@ much stronger shake at profit from now on because help has * gotten to 
where we are growing the grain we've had to buy. You know the educatorts liberal 
idea let loose on the nation of making two jobs grow where one grew before, just 
about ruins the chances of getting ahead. 
Inventory of farm crops runs something like this: 4% acres of barley harvested 
over 180 bushel of grain and 3 tons of straw; 4 acres of sod plowed efter hay mak- 
ing and sowed to soybeans and millet made a fair crop of hay was too wet to be good. 
This was then sowed to barley. A good coat of manure in the north field of walnuts 
and chestnuts made three good loads of hay where one grew before. 
Six acres I mentioned above to be planted to walnut were plowed this summer 
when we had time and sowed to buckwheat for feed, The straw, not worth a hoot for 
bedding will be left in the field for "disking in" for wheat. I understand this 
straw runs high in the three major plant foods as well as calcium. 
Live Stock Inventory: five heifers coming in this fall - should be worth at 
least $1,000; we're hoping for $1,200. Seven bulls 7 months old and five heifers 
just started, plus 75 laying hens. 
In them there hens likes a funny tale. For nearly 25 years we've kept chickens 
and always had good winter laying. Last winter even swearing wouldn't make tem lay. 
So after feeding them till January I sold them off. ‘Then the good wife says, "I'll 
take over the chickens if you can't get eggs, and I'll squeeze them out; I've always 
done the work anyway." She's doing good, too. But it shows the importance of making 
good "all the time" or losing your job. 
THE ART OF LIVING - SOIL HUSBANDRY 
last year you remember I mentioned the importance of having to live with a 
piece of land before you know what you want to do with ite Well, after you do what 
you want with it you-get an interesting lesson in sticking on the job if you don't 
want your initial efforts to be in vain. 
Day in and day out, evenings in and out, while the depressed ranks of labor 
plays on their fat pay check, I spend my time trimming, pruning, shaping, weeding; 
sowing a little grass seed here, hoeing a little there. A newly planted tree here, 
one there dragging its feet, I trimmed back and retamped. A good retamping mostly 
brings them out. 
Even one MUST have a good wife as mine. We have an old strawberry patch not 
worth picking, for we found the price of the berries just covered the pickers time. 
BUT BETTY picked them, sold $22 worth, made 3 dozen glasses of preserves and short 
_ cake every day for a month. 
The red raspberries were killed back; not worth picking, but she picked four to 
six pints a day at 25g a pint. The straw balers came at 8:30 Saturday night; she 
drove one truck while I loaded. 
SMOKE THIS IN YOUR PIPE 
Centralized government with an "agricultural priesthood" in Washington misses 
the head on the nail same as centralized government has since the daym of history. 
It only paralyzes with tax burdens and stifles individual thinking with no problems 
solved. 
And don't think for a minute Dewey will solve oUr problems. He, like Roosevelt, 
developed his wing feathers as governor of New York in the greatest “taxing” - great- 
est social "nose wiping" - greatest spender that that great state has ever seen while 
he yaps about economy in federal government. 
