D2S—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 16,1984
The
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Crop System Arlthmctle must be given its’ due respect in
Just thinking about the Good Ole’ todays’ Business, which relies
one-room school days stirs a lot of mightily on number crunchers,
memories. Ira Shaw, my first Almost everything we do can be
teacher, presided over the local related to numbers. The size of the
Schoolhouse known then as Mortgage, the acres in the farm,
Hickory Grove. Ira must have the cows in the herd, even the
taken the name of the school strength of the stand of corn we
literally because he always kept a just planted can be counted and
stout hickory switch handy, which judged as heavy or thin,
had a substantial effect on the Calculations enter into nearly
learning process. every serious decision we make,
I learned my ’rithmetic more to from counting calories down to
the fear of, than to the beat of the balancing the checkbook,
switch. The scars of learning are gut sometimes we just like to
therefore in my head instead of the make some of our fanning
other end. Math was never a decisions off the cuff, without
favonte subject, but it is one that bothering to figure the odds of
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