The ruin has been left to go on.

The mills, which used to grind home-grown corn, are now unemployed.

The corn comes ready ground from America.

Nothing is thought of but emigration, and the best people are going, leaving the old, the weak, and the inefficient at home.

"The labourer," said the late President Garfield, "has but one commodity to sell--his day's work, it is his sole reliance.