It was the same with the shorthorns, with the hay, and indeed with everything except sheep, which had been a mainstay and support to him.
'Yet even now,' concluded Cecil, shutting his pocket-book, 'I feel convinced that my plan and my system will be a success.

I can see that I committed one great mistake--I made all my improvements at once, laid out all my capital, and crippled my self.

I should have done one thing at a time.

I should, as it were, have grown my improvements--one this year, one next.

As it was, I denuded myself of capital.