296 HAPPY HOLLOW FARM 



That leaves the field work to be talked about 

 that part of the work which most of us think 

 about when farming is mentioned. Since we're 

 calling this a farm, we ought to be able to ac- 

 count for what the fields are doing. That's 

 fair enough; for running a farm as large as 

 ours doesn't consist merely in supplying the 

 house table. That may be done on only a few 

 acres ; but we have a hundred and twenty acres 

 in the farm. If the big end isn't paying, then 

 it's a case of the tail wagging the dog freak 

 business. 



We have sixty acres of the farm well cleaned 

 up and in a fine state of cultivation, besides 

 twenty acres in partly timbered pasture a 

 pasture with a brook on either side, and the 

 fields between. Ten acres of the sixty is in 

 park, lawn, garden, orchard, house grounds, 

 barnyard and feeding lots. That leaves fifty 

 acres actually devoted to field crops. 



From that fifty acres we shall get this year, 

 after deducting enough to pay labor cost, 

 about three hundred bushels of wheat, four 

 hundred of oats, eight hundred of corn, sixty 

 to seventy-five tons of cowpea and sorghum 

 hay, ten or twelve tons of straw, and perhaps 

 twenty tons of corn fodder that will be cut and 



