HINDRANCES AND HELPS 



caught hold o' the dung yit" (pegging away 

 with his hoe). 



"Do you think there 's any profit in growing 

 corn, hereabout?" 



*'Waal — don't know as there is much; kind 

 o' Hke to make a httle pork, and have a little 

 about for the hens." 



"But why not buy your corn and raise 

 something else, provided you can buy it, as 

 you often can, for sixty or seventy cents the 

 bushel?" 



"Waal— kind o' like to have a little 'heater' 

 piece ; the boys, you see, hoe it out in odd spells ; 

 don't pay out much for help." 



"But the boys could earn their seventy-five 

 cents a day, could n't they?" 



"Waal— s'pose they might— about; but kind 

 o' like to have 'em about home." 



"Have you ever tried carrots?" 



"Waal— no; kind o' back-achin' work to 

 weed carrits." 



And not only does this apathetic indifference 

 to the relative profits of different crops pre- 

 vail, but there is no proper business estimate 

 of home labor. 



We often see it affirmed, admiringly, that 

 such or such a farmer has built an enormous 

 quantity of wall— so many feet high and broad 



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