CROPS AND PROFITS 



turbed by any apprehension that this or that 

 enclosure may be needed for grazing, and so, 

 bar the use. I perceive that a well-regulated 

 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 whiffle- 

 tree, 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 luxuriant field, 

 where no foot of soil is wasted. The crops, in 

 long even lines, are marked only by the suc- 

 cessive stages of their growth, and by their 

 coloring. There are no crooked rows, no 

 gores, no gatherings. 



If the reader has ever chanced to sail upon 

 a summer's day up the river Seine, he will 

 surely remember the beautiful checker-work of 

 crops, which shine, in lustrous green, on either 

 bank beyond the old Norman city of Rouen. 

 Before yet the quaint and gorgeous towers of 

 the town have gone down in the distance, these 

 newer beauties of the cleanly cultivated shore- 



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