Show french Par fanning mIng unlike england france franco is 13 a country of small proprietors the great groat revolution wrested the vast estates from their hereditary owners and threw them into the market they were then broken up and purchased piecemeal and though many large properties havo been be n gathered together since then their number is small compared with that of the individual farms T the he result of this condition of afra affairs irs is that while in england wealth centers in the manufacturing districts and the great cities in france it is generally diffused over the whole country in england eagland the farmer wo pays ays heavy taxes and heavy rent ho saves money and there are few farmers indeed who arc are not small ca capitalists ita lists the Tho extremely fr frugal aged li habits ts of the agricultural people of france aid in bringing about this result in england as in america the farmer though he may bo be a careful man docs does not stint himself ot of necessities he lives well and he educates his children in F france rance matters arc are different hard work and frugal faro fare are the rule with the french countryman the proprietor as he lie is call called edthe the master of the great farm lording lr ding it over herds of fat cattle and fleecy sheep does not pamper lis his boly body on market days you see him hini at the village inn admired and envied ho he wears as a holiday outfit a clean blouse over his white shirt with his tall collar around which a satin tie is twisted his ilia pantaloons arc are of shiny broadcloth his shoes of strong fine leather without a patch and he lie carries a great silver leaded beaded cane ho he takes double as many lumps of sugar T in ili his 3 coffee a as 3 any other man talks in a blustering voice and is universally respected and feared these proprietors form a very rich and powerful class clas but they are often ignorant 1 to an incredible degree they grow rich simply because the people beneath them are more ignos rant than themselves the types of country life in in franco france are probably distinct from fibril those of any other country in the world in some sections the men and women dress according to their employments so that you can distinguish between the field and the stable laborer the dairy woman all and the libuse servant at sight the various implements now in use on the finest farms in france would be considered old fashioned across the channel in ili the best sections the plow is yet 1 little better than that which the E egyptian used to scratch the soil on very many farms farm the spade and hoe are made mado to do duty for the plow with small farms and ind cheap labor such a method is possible but it would make F franco rance a new country for the tile farmer ifft if it was plowed up from end to end like one of our great farms american tools find little ittle favor arith the F french rench farmer as yet there are a few in use and yeti the they are tire apparently regarded aa as ou curiosities we alle once passed a group of f fifty MY people gathered at a roadside in normandy to watch atch w the working gofan of an american plow A truxillo LF in ill american agrical Agri cul lurid for july |