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pastures we've made, so that we could have 

 full use of every subdivision at any time in the 

 year without extra labor of caring for the 

 stock. Every dollar spent in that way would 

 be a dollar doubled. Then there's that job of 

 foresting the woods forty. That would pay 

 handsomely, beyond all question. But it will 

 take a nice little lump of money to put it 

 through, and I shall have to put in full time 

 with the workers. I haven't been able to do 

 that yet. And so with a score of things that 

 wait to be done before we can call this a thor- 

 oughly established farm. I'm not blaming my- 

 self because the work of that sort isn't all fin- 

 ished. The losses arising from the delays I can 

 take cheerfully. Sometimes I wish I could go 

 right at it full tilt with an army of men and 

 have everything done at once ; but in my saner 

 intervals I'm glad I can't have it that way. 

 There's a lot more satisfaction in working as 

 we've had to work, taking our tasks one at a 

 time and feeling that each task completed 

 stands for a real difficulty mastered. It doesn't 

 do to have things come too easily. 



There's another sort of loss I'm not so com- 

 placent about. That's the loss that grows out 

 of sheer neglect. If things once done on a 



