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Napoleonic Wars and Plums

The Victor Davis Hanson Show

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The Disadvantages of Plums

Until recently the price was you know $4 a pound and these guys with good almond orchards were getting 3000 pounds 12,000 dollars per acre. And today's drip and computerize it's the computer turns on the water at particular times when I draw meters tell us that the soil is dry. They inject fertilizers on the schedule that goes right into to the drip hose. And then you just wait and then suddenly they're ripe. It's not that easy. But one guy and kind of looked like a tank it's it's got a wire mesh so he doesn't get a limb in his face. And then he goes through with a little arm and shakes each tree. Then

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