ANOTHER PICTURE.
Yet the land must have its value. Lcok for a trurent at the orchard of the Rectory. The apple trees are so many and so full of fruit that you would say they Would feed the whole hamlet. Look at the cottage gardens, bright with flowers and here and there well stocked with vegetables. If some fields have tumbled back to worthless grass, some are rich enough to fatten as well as feed. You come upon a farm here and there where the 'Mich cows look capable of an average of COO gallons without expensive feeding, and the signs that they are earning their keep are abundant. You remember, too, the days when the beans grew like forest bushes and farmers boasted in a good year of their five quarters of wheat to the acre on favoured fields. Seed-clover, worth as much almost as an intensive crop, was too valuable to let the sportsmen invade it. * * * *
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