328 ON THE MATURATION OF GRAIN 



he who guides the loom in the manufactory, to 

 produce fabrics of the most subtil texture, with 

 the most consummate skill, and ekes out his 

 recompense from farthings and half farthings, 

 accumulating by thousands ; and he who guides 

 the never-tiring loom of nature, must pursue the 

 self-same plan, and out of the secret processes 

 of the same, which meet not the eye of the looker 

 on, find his reward in the vast aggregation of 

 very small advantages. If we mean to farm well, 

 we must employ our capital in encouraging pro- 

 duce, to extend itself in every minute particular, 

 and then so secure that produce, that not a particle 

 of its value be lost to us, as the producers, nor 

 to the community as consumers. 



