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Updated: May 13, 2025
But July and August were terribly hot and dry, and oats and corn were only half-crop; and the farmers were grumbling. Some of them were forced to draw on the bank instead of depositing. McPhail came in, one day in November, to draw a thousand dollars to pay for a house and lot he had recently bought. Sanford was alone. He whistled. "Phew! You're comin' at me hard. Come in tomorrow.
In answer to their questioner, Wilfred told of his experiences on his quarter-section: how he had broken the prairie land, put in his crops, watched them wither away in the terrible dry months, roughed it through the winters, tried again, fought through another drought, staked all on the next spring's planting, raised a half-crop, paid off his chattel mortgage, tried again, succeeded.
That force finds a certain form of activity of itself, according to the stage of its development. There have been slaves first everywhere, then metayers; and we have the half-crop system, rent, and day laborers. What are you trying to find?"
"Why, manage like Mihail Petrovitch, or let the land for half the crop or for rent to the peasants; that one can do only that's just how the general prosperity of the country is being ruined. Where the land with serf-labor and good management gave a yield of nine to one, on the half-crop system it yields three to one. Russia has been ruined by the emancipation!"
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