A LAND-LOVER AND HIS LAND 



the most part of them, as farm -bred 

 oxen have hauled the stones. Little 

 fertilizer has been bought; but what 

 with green crops, and the saving 

 of barnyard manure, ploughland and 

 meadows alike come yearly into better 

 heart. One season, by special cultiva- 

 tion and heavy fertilizing, there was 

 corn so rank and tall and heavy-eared 

 it was the talk of the countryside. 

 Muck in quantity has helped to redeem 

 the garden from thirst and bareness. 

 This has meant work, of course, which, 

 in turn, has meant money ; but could 

 money be spent for more excellent, 

 more saving work? 



For a time, horses horses for riding, 

 driving, what not -sufficed. But in 

 the end came the automobile. It is a 

 big touring-car, strictly a farm belong- 

 ing. It fetches the farm folk to town, 



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