260 HAPPY HOLLOW FARM 



picking up and throwing out the stone. The 

 job took about a week to the mile, but when it 

 was finished it looked as if it had been newly 

 barbered and manicured. We can drive over 

 the Huntsville trail now with our eyes shut; 

 and next winter if a farmer wants to go to 

 town from out here all he'll need to do will be 

 to hitch up and go. Lots of times in past win- 

 ters we've stayed at home rather than mire 

 down on the way in. 



There's something doing, too, in the country 

 school district just north of Happy Hollow. 

 Until lately that has been a quiet country set- 

 tlement whose people went about their affairs 

 pretty much in the old way, taking things as 

 they came, doing no agitating, not getting 

 ahead very fast. Their life was largely a life 

 of traditions. 



A District Improvement Club has been or- 

 ganized, its members meeting week after week 

 to talk over living problems of farm life. 

 Sometimes they've had as many as a hundred 

 and fifty farm-folks at their gatherings. 

 They've had great good out of it, and the inter- 

 est is growing instead of flagging. Contrast 

 that with conditions in our own district six 

 years ago, when an ungraded school was 



