1922 Industrial Survey of Isaac McAllister

"Isaac makes a very poor effort at farming. I told him I could not see what was going to keep him from starving to death. He has not ample crop to feed his family. He is indolent and indifferent. Perhaps if he gets good and hungry for one winter and survives, he may realize the importance of raising some crop, and especially garden, next year. He had the little hay that he has put up on shares to keep from having to work. Isaac is a very knowing individual. He can tell the Secretary and the President how to run the Government, but he has no garden."