64 MY FARM. 



and can presently make such show of dainty cattle, 

 and of mammoth vegetables, as excites the stare of 

 the neighborhood, and leads to his enrolment among 

 the dignitaries of the County Society. 



But the neighbors who stare, have their occasional 

 chat with the canny Scot, from whom they learn that 

 the expenses of the business are " gay large ; " they 

 pass a quiet side wink from one to the other, as they 

 look at the vaulted cellars, and the cumbrous ma- 

 chinery ; they remark quietly that the multitude of 

 implements does not forbid the employment of a 

 multitude of farm " hands ; " they shake their heads 

 ominously at the extraordinary purchases of grain ; 

 they observe that the pet calves are usually indulged 

 with a wet nurse, in the shape of some rawboned 

 native cow, bought specially to add to the resources 

 of the fine-blooded dam ; and with these things in 

 their mind rthey reflect. 



If the results are large, it seems to them that the 

 means are still more extraordinary ; if they wonder 

 at the size of the crops, they wonder still more at the 

 liberality of the expenditure ; it seems to them, after 

 full comparison of notes with the " braw " Scot, that 

 even their own stinted crops would show a better 

 balance sheet for the farm. It appears to them that 

 if premium crops and straight-backed animals can 

 only be had by such prodigious appliances of men 



