It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.

I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.

We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.

Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.

I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents.

The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle.