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Find a comfortable spot.

Adjust your volume.

Take a nice deep breath in. Let it out slowly and off we go.

Tonight we're reading a very unique and practical work by one of the great American agriculturalists.

Bulletin number 43, Nature's Garden for Victory and Peace,

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