172 HAPPY HOLLOW FARM 



compensation. We would practice fall plow- 

 ing only when the fields would carry a winter 

 cover-crop of some sort small grain, or rape, 

 or winter vetch, to be pastured in winter or 

 cut in the spring. 



So far as possible, every blade and stem of 

 everything grown on the land, even the weeds, 

 would be turned to account fed to livestock 

 on the place, or returned to the soil for humus. 

 We've had brush fires at Happy Hollow on 

 our newly cleared land ; but in all our six years 

 no man has seen a wisp of anything burned 

 that might be plowed under. But, oh, the fires 

 weVe seen on the lands up and down the val- 

 ley! I wish I had the money they've cost the 

 farmers since we've been here. 



To the uttermost of our ability, everything 

 needed on the farm for food of man and beast 

 would be produced here. If at any time the 

 field crops of hay or forage or grain would 

 show a surplus above the year's needs of the 

 farm, new stock would be bought to consume 

 this surplus hogs or young milk cattle by 

 choice. 



And then, for the ultimate rule toward 

 which all the others tended, nothing would 

 leave the farm save in the most finished form 



