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1.1 Jim Doherty may not be a born farmer , but he gets buywithout too much trouble. Not that he has had it easy. That first hard winter he faced must have left him with the temptation to give up and go back to the city. But he managed to get through it without losing heart. He’spicked up a lot of skills since then and made some real improvements to his farm, though without much laborsaving machinery aside from that old rotary cultivator. I suspecthe doesn ’t make all that much, though he does have his writing to supplement what little profit he makes from the farm.