188 AWAKENING OF ENGLAND. 



the farmer clears the land before he can begm 

 to plant his potatoes. The stones are put 

 into heaps as one sees farmers in England pile 

 up the swedes in a field of roots. Then they 

 are carted away in a donkey-cart and used for 

 erecting field-walls. 



The agricultural instructors, who spend 

 their whole time in teaching the farmers modern 

 methods, soon get them to quit using the spade 

 for making their lazy beds in which to plant 

 potatoes, and induce them instead to plough, 

 drawing drills for the tuber. 



Very often the little patch of oats cultivated 

 on the old uneconomic holding, the one crop 

 which brings in ready money, has been 

 cultivated solely by the spade. 



It is obvious that a poor peasant, though 

 able to borrow money from the Credit Bank, 

 would not find it profitable to keep two work- 

 ing horses on thirty acres, nor to buy the larger 

 and more expensive of the agricultural imple- 

 ments. He can, though, purchase one or two 

 implements and keep one horse, and so the 

 difficulty is overcome by neighbours co-operat- 

 ing in the ploughing or drilling in of seed : 

 the two single horses of two settlers being 

 harnessed together as a ploughing team, and 



