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but they'll run up in one way and another to 

 many dollars. Best of all, our pigs will be 

 thriving on a part of that sorghum for next 

 winter's meat, and for the rest of the year our 

 milk and cream and butter will cost us nothing 

 but the labor of caring for the animals while 

 most of our farmer neighbors are going with- 

 out. 



You can see that there's nothing extraordi- 

 nary in any of this. We've had no circum- 

 stances in our favor save as we've taken hold 

 and molded them to our needs. There isn't a 

 farm in the country on which this sort of man- 

 agement might not be followed just a careful, 

 timely stroke that's thought out long enough 

 beforehand to give it full value. As a matter 

 of fact, though, I don't know of one farm 

 around Happy Hollow that's having such man- 

 agement. I haven't seen another farm in the 

 neighborhood that has provided even a little 

 forage-patch. 



That isn't a showy sort of management. 

 Even a practical farmer would be apt to un- 

 derestimate its worth if he had never tried the 

 stop-gap system in his own work. He'd de- 

 ceive himself by figuring the money value of 

 the small batches of stuff grown in that way 



