Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!

Two antagonistic stepbrothers live on a mid-western farm with their mother. One of them takes a job as a hired-hand with a neighboring farmer with whose daughter he is in love, although the daughter appears to be more than a little bit distaff toward him and her father offers no encouragement nor no endorsements reference the courtship. The young man buys two mules in order to add to his income, and his jealous stepbrother attempts to disable the mules but is foiled. Later he uses the two mules to rescue his employer from a quagmire, and the latter gives him permission to marry his daughter.