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BREAKING INTO THE TIN INDUSTRY.
I decided to leave Birmingham as soon as my stomach had got used to regular meals and my pocket knew what real money felt like again.
The dry years had ended and once more the northern farms were yielding mammoth crops.

But the country was so sick that it couldn't sit up and eat as it ought to.

So the farmers were selling their crops at steadily falling prices.

This drove some of them frantic.