Show the land doctor by vivian shearer hank clincy was in a figuring mood he had a stubby penell pencil in his fingers sheets of tablet paper were scattered s catt ered over the dining table when I 1 came in 1111 hya ya vivian lie he greeted sit down and help me figure it seems that he had decided that he be was needing more crop than he was making on his quarter becton to get more crop he lias has about decided to rent another acre farm a couple of miles down the road and to farm both places 1 I got er figured out he was frowning at the papers before him not a sign of good figures ot of course I 1 will have to have hae a little more help and might have hae to buy another tractor or some horses then theres the rent but it ought to pay he added in final argument how much corn you making now I 1 asked somewhere arlund 20 bushels he answered about halt half an ordinary crop a third ofa of a good crop and about a fourth of a bumper crop I 1 was thinking out loud other crops in about the same proportion 1 I reckon youre about right he 14 agreed 11 okay hank I 1 said let me I 1 have some ot of that paper ill furnish my own pencil and ill show pou poll how you can make more money and enjoy yourself a lot more by not renting that other farm it you will uso use the same saine amount of money and effort I 1 in building up own place continued on last page the I 1 land and doctor continued from page one bue band and taking car care e oi of jt lt you yot can apu dauble ble your yi yield fieldin eldin in ajea years bears hank and wont iiona have to have more help orna cli anery to doit it the same crop in halt half the acres Is always better business and bitter better farming you used to get gei three times as many bushels of 0 corn as you do now you know I 1 reminded him to clinch tha argument but like J 1 said a while back hankis is stub bornand hardshell hard shell kilell ed that last fast re remark in ark of mine was unfortunate ir for it ln in a sore spot youre so gosh awful simple minde d vivian at lie argued that a body cant even talk to you everybody kuoy knows s that the climate has changed and we dont get as much rain as we used to and why we dont raise kalse as asgood 1 good crops asye as we used to why I 1 built this s house right he here re because there was was a spring of f good water under that b lank ank there the reThe the spring never roii runs s any more been 10 16 or orla 16 years That shows bedont we vOi dont have as much rain as als we used to 4 youre as wet as over ever all wet when yon you aay say aai il i told lihn him I 1 pul pulled ledsome soma weather weather bureau records from ini my pocket and i opened them up before him on on the table I 1 also laid before befaro him him a graph showing g the althe wet we tand and dry cycles since the beginning of official government L records the average precipitation followed a i pattern of normal fluctuation 1 I have tobe lobe doniny way now H hank k i told fold him but to look 0 k thene these figures over and ill be back before long to show you what I 1 meant |