92 HAPPY HOLLOW FARM 



chance at all for an overflow of abundance at 

 the top. If those wastes would be stopped, 

 you'd hear far less sorrowful complaining that 

 farming doesn't afford a decent living. 



Our poultry flock took a jump that spring 

 from the townsman's couple of dozen to the 

 farmer's couple of hundred. I shall have more 

 to say about the hen proposition after a while. 

 Also we were laying the foundation for high- 

 grade dairy and pig herds. 



We had made one of our mistakes with our 

 cows. In our first summer, seeing acres and 

 acres of luxuriant wild grass going to waste 

 on the uncleared lands among the rocks and 

 the scrub growths, I had bought a dozen cows 

 and a cream separator. The cows were good 

 animals; each of them passed a satisfactory 

 test at our university station. The station was 

 taking cream from farmers at a very satisfac- 

 tory price for butterfat. There was potential 

 profit in our herd; indeed, for several months 

 they gave a net profit of twenty-five to thirty 

 dollars a month over everything, besides fur- 

 nishing our table abundantly with milk and 

 cream and butter and an unlimited quantity of 

 skim milk for the young pigs. 



Before the end of the summer, though, we 



