1 Yes, I ought to have said to him: You say that our husbandry does not answer because the peasant hates improvements, and that they must be forced on him by authority.
2 If no system of husbandry answered at all without these improvements, you would be quite right.
3 And to do this one must lower the standard of husbandry and interest the laborers in its success.
4 Gladly will I do as you wish, since for many a day past have I been longing to amend my life, and to engage in husbandry, and to reorder my affairs.
5 Pointing to the fields, he spoke of the improvements he was making in his husbandry.
6 As to persons of quality, they give security to appropriate a certain sum for each child, suitable to their condition; and these funds are always managed with good husbandry and the most exact justice.