TRAVEL IN EUROPE 281 



In addition to the ten days given to the study of 

 English agriculture while driving through the best 

 agricultural districts and going from town to town 

 in the evenings by rail, I interviewed many country 

 gentlemen to gain a clearer idea of the rural life 

 of England. Two days in London enabled me to 

 take a second-story-bus ride down Cheapside, 

 visit Kew Gardens, the Parliament House and the 

 Bank; to ride the whole length of the two-penny 

 tube, to see Cleopatra's Needle, erected on the 

 banks of the Thames and to eat dinner at a swell 

 restaurant, just to see how our wealthy cousins 

 got awuy with so much American beef. 



In France, I spent about one-half my time in the 

 country districts and since everybody knows about 

 beautiful Paris, I shall spare the reader a descrip- 

 tion of what I saw there. My objective point in 

 the country was the village of Nogent le Rotrou 

 in the province of Eure et Loire, the center of the 

 Percheron horse district. While selecting four 

 of the best specimens of this breed to take ba'ck 

 to America, I had opportunity to mingle freely 

 with the farmers and to observe their modes of 

 life and thought. The country round about was 

 not unlike Tompkins county, New York; the farms 

 were of fair size and the fields were fenced and 



