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the old plan of waste by poaching and by expos- 

 ure of all manurial material to the fierce beat of the 

 sun, and to the washings of rain storms. I perceive 

 that the land, as well as cattle, are all fairly in hand, 

 and better under control. If at any time the season, 

 or the market, should indicate a demand for some 

 special crop, I am not disturbed by any apprehension 

 that this or that enclosure may be needed for graz 

 ing, and so, bar the use. I perceive that a well-regu 

 lated system must govern all the farm labor, and 

 that there will be no place for that looseness of 

 method, and carelessness about times and details, 

 which is invited by the old way of turning cattle 

 abroad to shirk for themselves. 



No timid team will be thrashed, in order to wipe 

 the fence posts with the clattering whiffletree, at the 

 last bout around the headlands. There will be no 

 worrying of the Buckeye in old and weedy corners ; 

 not a reed or a Golden-rod can wave anywhere in 

 triumph. The eye sweeps over one stretch of luxu 

 riant field, where no foot of soil is wasted. The 

 crops, in long even lines, are marked only by the 

 successive stages of their growth, and by their color 

 ing. There are no crooked rows, no gores, no gath 

 erings. 



If the reader has ever chanced to sail upon a 

 Bummer s day up the river Seine, he will surely re- 



