Show The Land Doctor By Vivian Shearer 1 Hank was in a figuring figuring figur figur- ing mood He had a n. stubby pencil pencil pencil pen pen- cil in his fingers Sheets of tablet tablet tablet tab tab- let paper were scattered over the dining table when I came inHa in Hya Ha Vivian he greeted Sit down and help me figure It seems that he had decided that ho was needing more crop than he was making on his quarter To get more crop he has about decided to rent another another another an an- other acre farm a couple of miles down the road and to farm both places I got er figured out he was frowning at the papers before before before be be- fore h him not him not a sign of at good figures Of oc course I will have to have a little more help and might have to bu buy another tractor tractor tractor trac trac- tor or some somo horses Then theres there's the rent But Dut it ought to pay par he lie added in final argument How much corn you making now I asked Somewhere around 20 bushels bushels bushels bu bu- bu- bu he ho answered About half an nn ordinary crop a third of a good crop and about a fourth of a bumper crop 1 I Iwas iwas was thinking out loud Other crops in about tho the same samo proportion proportion proportion pro pro- portion I II I reckon youre you're about right he lIe agreed Oka Okay Hank I said let me me have llave sonic some of that paper paper Ill Ill I'll furnish my own pencil pencil and and Ill I'll show pou you how you can make malte more money and enjoy yourself a lot more by not renting that other farm if you will use the tho same amount of money and effort eUort in building up your own place and taking care of or it ft You can dou double lo your our yield in a few years Hank and wont won't have to have more help or machinery to do it Tho The same crop in half the acres is always better business business and and better belter farming You used to get three tin times es as many bushels of or corn COln as you do now you know I reminded him to clinch the argument But Dut like I said a while back Hank Is stubborn and hard shell Continued on last pago page The Land an Doctor Continued from Crom page one ed That last remark of oC mine was unfortunate for Cor it hit him in ina ina a sore spot Youre so gosh awful simple In minded laded Vivian ho argued a body cant can't even talk to toy y you u. u Everybody knows that the climate has changed and we dont don't get as much rain as we used to and that's why we dont don't raise as good crops as we used to Why I built this house right here because there was a spring sprin of go good d water under that bank there The spring novel never runs an any more been lIeen dry now for Cor 10 or 15 years That shows we dont don't have as much rain as we used to Youre as wet as ever all wet when you say that I toll told him I pUlled some weather bureau bur bur- eau records from Crom my pocket and opened them up before him on the thc table I also laid before him hima a graph showing the wet and dry cycles since the beginning ot of offIcial government records The average precipitation followed a pattern of of normal I have to lie be on my way now Hank I told him But look these fIgures over o and Ill I'll be beback beback back before beCore lon long to show you what I meant |