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...Bill Booth, like quite a few farmers these days, could afford $2,300 for a little family trip. At 61, he has the slow, big-knuckled hands and weather-beaten face of a man who has done tough, physical work all his life. "When I got back from my wedding trip to Niagara Falls in 1911," recalls Booth, "I was busted." His father gave him $1,000 and his blessing, and Booth was on his own. Fifteen years ago his wife inherited some land and the house. Now he has 600 acres of rich Indiana farm land outside Rushville...
...Doing It Myself." What Booth has got includes four tractors, a corn chopper, a self-propelled combine, plenty of discs, plows, wheat drills, and cultivators, a 1946 Chevrolet and-his pride & joy-a 1948 Cadillac. Said Mrs. Booth: "It's a four-door sedan with white sidewall tires. I wanted the Fleetwood, but it wouldn't go in the garage." Booth apologized for the farm buildings: "Need painting. Haven't been able to buy the quality of paint we wanted. But I'll paint this summer. I'll save 50% doing it myself...
Taking time off from winter chores, Farmer Booth slipped off his buttoned sweater and sat down on the living-room sofa in his blue denim shirt. The farm, he figured, was worth better than $125,000. Last year he sold his hogs for $27,600. He got $10,169 for his corn, $9,216 for his wheat. "I just figured up my income tax and it scared me," he admitted. "I paid more this year than I ever...
Pretty Much Alike. "Of course," added Booth, "I don't think this is good business for the Government, but a man's foolish not to take advantage of it, isn't he?" Farmer Booth was worried about the Government and "all that debt." Said he: "My advice to the people in Washington is to stop spending so much money. They don't spend it, they squander it. They squander part of it on the farmers ... but the farmers figure if they squander for everybody we might as well get our share because...
This week Farmer Booth and his family, and 21 other Indiana farmers and wives on the Hoosier Hawaiian Air-a-Van boarded a plane at the Indianapolis airport. "They're all just good, average farmers," explained a Farm Bureau man. "None of them is the top brass kind of farmer. They're all pretty much alike, these Indiana farmers...