When the war was over, Newspaperman Clarence Dirks did what most other city people just talk about doing. He settled down on a little farm to .raise cows, chickens and fruit.
He was as green at it as a stock character in a rural comedy; killing a chicken was a new and horrible experience, and at first, he ate a comb of honey a day, until he found he could sell them for 55¢. The pittance Dirks got from his 76 acres on Camano Island in Puget Sound would have sent most men back to the city, but he eked out his...