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living must be taken care of first, and in a way 

 that insured the greatest possible economy. 



The rest of our land if there happened to 

 be any left we planned to devote to the grow- 

 ing of grain and forage crops to be fed to live- 

 stock on the farm, so that whatever we might 

 have to sell, in the course of time, would leave 

 the farm in the most highly finished form. 

 When you figure it all out, taking everything 

 into account labor, interest and taxes, loss of 

 fertility, and the rest of the items the average 

 farmer who raises hay and corn to sell loses 

 money by it. Hogs and cattle were to eat our 

 crops at Happy Hollow. 



There was the plan we made, talking it over 

 between ourselves and with the college folk, 

 and reading everything we could find that 

 would help us toward our end. The further we 

 got into it, the clearer it became to us that we 

 had undertaken a life-size task. Next year 

 wouldn't see much of a change, nor maybe the 

 year after that, in our yields of field crops. 

 That was bound to take time. But at any rate 

 we'd have the farm established on the right 

 basis. 



That first merry month of May was a 

 mighty moist month. Night after night it 



