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Show stirring up the sugar in a ten cent glass of gin, let me give you a fact to wash clown with it. You say you have long for years for the free independent in-dependent life of a farmer, but you have never been able to buy a farm. For some years you have been drinking a good improved farm at the rate of one hundred square feet at a gulp. If you doubt this statement state-ment figure it out yourself. An acre of land contains 43,500 feet; estimating esti-mating for convenience, the land at 43.50$ an acre, you will see that it brings the land to just one mill per square foot. Now pour down the fiery dose and imagine you are swallowing a strawberry patch. Call in five of your friends and have I them help you gulp down that 500 foot garden. Get on a prolonged spree some day and see how long it would take to swallow a pasture land to feed a cow. Put down that glass of gin; there is dirt in it three hundred feet of good, rich dirt, worth 43.50$ per acre." Mohave Co. Miner. Swallowing Dirt. Bob Burdette gives this simple recipe: re-cipe: "My homeless friend with the chromatic nose, while you are |