HAPPY HOLLOW FARM 169 



see the point I'm trying to get at? Well, let 

 me put it in another way. 



We had a badly run-down farm. With no 

 great stretch of imagination you might liken it 

 to a man whose constitution had been under- 

 mined, his vitality left at low ebb, by dissipa- 

 tion, or overwork, or disease, or anything you 

 like. A man in that case might be helped over 

 an acute attack of the Trembling Willies by a 

 drastic use of drugs; but if he's ever to be a 

 real man again, with the constitution and use- 

 fulness of a man, that constitution must be 

 built up from within. The functioning of his 

 own organism must do the trick in really get- 

 ting him back to normal. 



That's exactly how we looked at our prob- 

 lem on this farm. If there was any help for 

 the present and any hope for the future in the 

 new scientific farming, we must be able to 

 build this farm up from within, provided we 

 could hit upon the right methods. 



Those methods, if they were right, must be 

 simple, practical, reasonable; and they must 

 render it possible to build up the farm to the 

 point where it would begin to return a fair 

 measure of profit upon investment and opera- 

 tion without too great an outlay of time and 



