The first he could get if he chose; and without the second, without capital, he had no business to be farming at all.

He was simply stopping the road of a better man, and the sooner he was driven out of the way the better.

The neglect of machinery was most disheartening.

A farmer bought one machine, perhaps a reaping-machine, and then because that solitary article did not immediately make his fortune he declared that machinery was useless.

Could the force of folly farther go?
With machinery they could do just as they liked.