The difference in the value of grass represented by these prices is very great.
He has no pigs to sell, because, for a long while past, he has had nothing upon which to feed them, the milk being sold.

The pigsties are full of weeds; he can hardly fatten one for his own use, and has scarcely better facilities for keeping pigs than an agricultural labourer.

The carriage of the milk to the station requires at least two quick horses, and perhaps more; one cannot do it twice a day, even with a very moderate load.

The hard highway and the incessant work would soon knock a single horse up.
The mowing machine and the horse-rake must be drawn by a similar horse, so that the dairy farm may be said to require a style of horse like that employed by omnibus proprietors.

The acreage being limited, he can only keep a certain number of horses, and, therefore, has no room for a brood mare.
Farmer George is aware that nothing now pays like a brood cart mare with fair good luck.