But the only system that does answer is where laborer is working in accordance with his habits, just as on the old peasant's land half-way here.

Your and our general dissatisfaction with the system shows that either we are to blame or the laborers.

We have gone our way--the European way--a long while, without asking ourselves about the qualities of our labor force.

Let us try to look upon the labor force not as an abstract force, but as the _Russian peasant_ with his instincts, and we shall arrange our system of culture in accordance with that.

Imagine, I ought to have said to him, that you have the same system as the old peasant has, that you have found means of making your laborers take an interest in the success of the work, and have found the happy mean in the way of improvements which they will admit, and you will, without exhausting the soil, get twice or three times the yield you got before.