The same incompleteness ran through everything--one field was well tilled, the next indifferently, the third full of weeds.

Here was a good modern cattle-shed, well-designed for the purpose; yonder was a tumble-down building, with holes in the roof and walls.
So, too, with the implements--a farmer never seemed to have a complete set.

One farmer had, perhaps, a reaping machine, but he had not got an elevator; another had an elevator, but no steam-plough.

No one had a full set of machinery.

If they drained, they only drained one field; the entire farm was never by any possibility finished straight off.