290 HAPPY HOLLOW FARM 



there's often no milk or butter on the farm- 

 house tables. 



That looks like poor business, doesn't it? 

 With a little planning all expensive summer 

 feeding may be done away with. Even if the 

 farmer isn't able to afford a summer silo he 

 may save himself by a bit of contriving. 



It happens that we have at Happy Hollow 

 in this midsummer quite a likely bunch of 

 young cows and heifers and lately weaned 

 calves. Up to this time there has been plenty 

 of good grass and clover pasture, but in an- 

 other week or ten days we shall have to think 

 about other feed. There are more animals in 

 the lot than we need for farm use. Most farm- 

 ers in this fix would sell off the surplus; in- 

 deed, that's just what the neighbors are doing. 

 The desire to sell has struck them all at once, 

 so that the speculators are able to beat down 

 prices several notches below real values. If 

 we can carry our animals over the next month 

 or six weeks cheaply and have some good milk 

 animals to offer when the fall rains start and 

 the fall pastures freshen it will mean a good 

 many dollars to us. 



We prepared for this emergency a month 

 ago, making a thick sowing of amber sorghum 



