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Excerpt from The Keystone of Industries: Illustrated There was a farmer who got plumb discour aged; it seemed as if whenever he' got a good crop prices were so low that it didn't pay to haul the stuff to market and when prices were high he had no crop. Things got so bad he said he'd be hanged if he was going to work any more. He figured he would starve anyhow and there was no useworking himself to death at the same time. When spring came he didn't plant anything at all but let the weeds have full sway. Everybody predicted that he would be in the poor house inside of six months, but that didn't worry him in the least because he knew he was headed that way any how. There was talk of electing him to some office in order to provide for his family, but his political views were all wrong and it couldn't be done. About four months later, when this man had a fine crop of rag weeds and wild radish, along came an auto with four good lively young fellows and stopped for water for their machine; the farmer asked them if they wanted a drink of cider, for there were a few wild, twisted old trees that nature kept for him. After cracking a few jokes the men asked him how much he would take for his farm; just for a joke he said he would take seven hundred dollars an acre. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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