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“I mean, can we even get a half an acre right?”

It was reported at the time that the price he had paid the Government was ten shillings per acre, right out.

Now, friends, a dozen years from the time we started on that farm, under these circumstances, we were getting from one hundred and fifty to two hundred and fifty bushels of merchantable potatoes per acre right along—not a single year, but on the average—varying, of course, somewhat with the season.

If he don't say "go slow" when you comes a-yellin' up, your remains would a-been coverin' half an acre right now.