120 OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES. 



seizure of all economic methods, our implement 

 makers will adapt themselves to the new demands 

 with that shrewdness which has thus far been so 

 characteristic of their efforts. 



Again, we have no regularly educated plowmen 

 in America. Every man who fai'ms five acres of land 

 thinks he can plow nay, he is in doubt if anybody 

 in the world can do it better. But good plowing is 

 a thing of education, as much as good preaching, or 

 carpentering, or shoemaking, or writing. Nothing 

 but experience gives the final and effective hand- 

 ling. With the wonderful division of labor in all 

 old countries, every agricultural laborer has his special 

 province and domain of work. And it is quite absurd 

 to suppose that a man who plows only a month out of 

 the twelve can have anything like that due knowledge 

 of the craft, which one acquires by handling the plow- 

 stilts every day, for a hundred days in succession. It 

 is quite true that under a European sky whether of 

 Belgium, France, or England tillage can be carried 

 on far into the winter, and that, therefore, there is 

 more occasion that a man be educated for the special 

 office of plowing. But whatever occasion may be, 

 the fact remains the same that, while in Belgium and 

 in Great Britain there is an annual crop of appren- 

 tices to the plow, in America there is none. Every 

 man who can use a hoe or a pitch-fork is supposed to 



