Hay Days and Meadow Larks 



Those who get nothing out of coun- 

 try life and harvest scenes, save figures 

 on the debit or the credit side of the 

 ledger when the accounts are balanced, 

 are warned to read no further than 

 this page, for I shall have nothing to 

 say that will interest them in the least. 

 The greater part of my life has been 

 spent in hoeing and harvesting, some- 

 times real grain, and sometimes only 

 "chaff." At any rate, stout harness 

 has been worn; so don't begrudge me, 

 therefore, if I cast it off an hour or two 

 again, and ask another little "run to 

 grass." I only call the attention of 

 the intensely practical ones who make 

 up the great majority in this human 

 hive to this one fact. 



If the Chicago packers, for example, 

 only credited themselves with the meat 

 they get out of the animals they buy, 

 theirs would be a discouraging and a 

 losing enterprise. But they have 

 found out that there is much more 

 than mere bacon and beef to be had 



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