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who works with the laborers. Try as I would I 

 could not get to see the peasants at home in their 

 neat-looking little brick houses, nor could I get an 

 invitation to eat with them. A bailiff informed 

 me that the peasants would be so embarrassed that 

 they would not sit down at table with me even if 

 he took me into the houses. 



The tillage crops and the livestock were usually 

 of the best, but the farm implements and the 

 methods of using them were often of the worst. 

 In a hayfield I saw a man leading a fine horse 

 which was hitched to a spring-toothed, self-dump- 

 ing hay-rake why he walked I could not dis- 

 cover ! Near by two women were rolling up the 

 windrows into bunches and two men were pitching 

 them onto a wagon which had wheels and rack so 

 high as to necessitate pitching the last of the load 

 more than ten feet up ! There were two loaders, 

 two women raking the scatterings of the pitchers, 

 and a boy leading one big horse hitched to the 

 wagon. It must be said, however, that that load 

 of hay was as trim and square-cornered as a barn, 

 when it reached the rick. 



I visited Laws and Gilbert's wonderful experi- 

 ment farm and learned much as to methods of 

 experimentation from both of them. It was a 



