176 HAPPY HOLLOW FARM 



Potato farming is solid and sound as a busi- 

 ness. In this hill country there are potato 

 specialists who have made good money on this 

 one product, year in and year out. We might 

 have justified ourselves easily in planting five 

 or ten acres to potatoes as a revenue producer. 

 But we didn't. We have contented ourselves 

 with growing potatoes for farm use and no 

 more. 



And there's the strawberry. This is quite a 

 strawberry country, and the growers who have 

 gone about it right have found strawberry 

 growing quite profitable. We might quite 

 sanely have decided to cast an anchor to wind- 

 ward by setting out a few acres of berries. But 

 we didn't. With all the fruits we have held 

 ourselves down to just enough for home con- 

 sumption. 



There's some land on the farm well suited to 

 celery. Well handled, that's a profitable crop, 

 too. So is duck-raising profitable if one goes 

 at it in the right way; so is tomato-growing; so 

 is flower culture. There are dozens of things 

 that promise and actually deliver profits to the 

 farmer who puts his mind to them. We might, 

 without being a speck visionary, have tried half 

 a dozen of these things all at once, on the theory 



