"They raise cows and oxen.

They let them eat the grass as it grows, all summer, and in the winter they feed them with what they have cut and dried and stored in the barn for them.

The farmers are all ambitious to cut as much hay as they can, and to keep a large stock of cattle.

Thus they turn the grass into beef, and the beef can be easily transported.

In fact, it almost transports itself." "How do you mean ?" asked Marco.
"Why, the oxen and cows, when they are fat and ready for market, walk off in droves to Boston, to be killed.