250 HAPPY HOLLOW FARM 



The only thing to do is just to keep right on 

 going. 



One of these times the average corn crop of 

 the United States will be fifty bushels to the 

 acre instead of twenty-six. How do you sup- 

 pose that will come about? By means of the 

 farmers remaining satisfied with twenty-six? 

 Not much ! By means of setting the mark at 

 fifty bushels? No, sir! We'll raise the aver- 

 age to fifty bushels when we all really try with 

 all our might to beat a hundred bushels. Do 

 you see? 



Nothing in our crop work at Happy Hollow 

 has given us any reason to be satisfied save 

 that each successive year has marked a step 

 ahead. How many more steps ahead good, 

 long steps may we take before we get to the 

 limit of possibilities? You tell me, for I don't 

 know. I'm tolerably sure of this, though: 

 When my work-time is done, the way will still 

 be clear ahead for doing better things than 

 anybody has succeeded in doing in my time. 



There's a mocking bird sitting on the very 

 tip-top twig of the big wild cherry tree back 

 of the house, singing at the very tip-top of his 

 voice. He's been at it all this week, from the 

 first glimmer of dawn to the last soft glow of 



