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would have trouble recording his speeches, which would include movements such as imitating a salmon swimming upstream. His reputation as an eccentric peer lead to media appearances, including as a guest in 1970 on
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Drummond was no less innovative when it came to his theories on agriculture and his farming practices on his
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