You see the farmer upon his thoroughbred, but you do not know to whom in reality the horse belongs.

It is all loans and debt.

The vendors of artificial manure are said not to be averse sometimes to make an advance on reasonable terms to those enterprising and deserving farmers who grow so many tons of roots, and win the silver cups, and so on, for the hugest mangold grown with their particular manure.

The proprietors of the milk-walks in London are said to advance money to the struggling dairymen who send them their milk.

And latterly the worst of usurers have found out the farmers--_i.e._ the men who advance on bills of sale of furniture, and sell up the wretched client who does not pay to the hour.