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dred and fifty bushels of corn and that's 

 what I'm bent upon two years hence then 

 we'll have no excuse for failing to key our 

 larger fields up to the same mark. We'll get 

 good discipline out of that trial tract in hold- 

 ing ourselves up to the best that's in us; and 

 we'll find out what's in the land. 



Understand, we're not planning to do any- 

 thing extravagant or faddish on our model 

 acres. That's to be practical farming, as prac- 

 tical as any we're doing, and carefully guarded 

 against everything that wouldn't be likely to 

 pay on the larger scale of the fields. It's to 

 be a "show" spot; that's true; but we'll be 

 showing ourselves. 



Don't you think that's a good idea? I'm 

 stuck on it. If on those four acres we can 

 keep things from going slack keep all at high 

 tension I believe the example we set our- 

 selves will be infectious. I think we'll catch it. 



I've let this run over till Sunday evening. 

 We've had a fine day at Happy Hollow just 

 our own folks. It's a long time since a Sunday 

 has passed without somebody coming over the 

 hill from town for a visit. It was too hot to- 

 day; so we just loafed around the house by 

 ourselves, having a quiet dinner, reading a lit- 



