He entered on no extensive draining works, nor worried his landlord to begin them.

He was content with the tumble-down sheds till it was possible to shelter cattle in them no longer.

Sometimes he was compelled to purchase a small quantity of artificial manure, but it was with extreme reluctance.

He calculated to produce sufficient manure in the stalls, for he kept a large head of fattening cattle, and sheep to the greatest extent possible.

He would rather let a field lie fallow, and go without the crop from it, till nature had restored the exhausted fertility, than supply that fertility at the cost of spending money.