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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.
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I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.
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I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
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I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents.
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I taught Agriculture for one year.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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In Toronto, they used it in the Sun Magazine Sunday Supplement when they interviewed me for a story, and I did not even know.
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It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.
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It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.
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Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.
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My gourmet popping corn pops up lighter and fluffier than ordinary popping corn. Eats better, too.
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Princeton Farms was a closed family corporation. No chance of ever buying there.
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The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle.
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The farmers had brought in soft wheat. We grew to where we were producing nearly 600 Acres of Hybrid Dent Corn Seed yearly.
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The other Processors sold inferior corn in the consumer package because many consumer buyers were only interested in a good price.
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The quality sold in the amusement business did not measure up, and that is how we got into the package business with our superior product.
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We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.
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We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.
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We had a registered herd of Angus cattle and Hampshire hogs and Hampshire sheep. We showed them at state fairs.
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We had to grow most of our popcorn off the Princeton Farms because I had my popcorn seed and my dent seed corn.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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We started to farm all that land with hired labor. We had, at the start of World War II, 38 boys drafted off our farms.
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We started with a metal can, but due to metal shortages, changed to a paraffin coated fiber can with metal ends.
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