ely talkingof the urgent necessity of carrying the remaining sheavesof rye the next day, and of sending the men out for the744 of 1759
Anna Kareninasecond ploughing, so that Levin felt that this was not thetime for discussing it.On beginning to talk to the peasants about it, andmaking a proposition to ce bobbi billard video de them the land on new terms,he came into collision with the same great difficulty thatthey were so much absorbed by the current work of theday, that they had not time to consider the advantages anddisadvantages of the proposed scheme.The simple-hearted Ivan, the cowherd, seemedcompletely to grasp Levins proposal—that he should withhis family take a share of the profits of the cattle-yard—and he was in complete sympathy with the plan. Butwhen Levin hinted at the future advantages, Ivans faceexpressed alarm and regret that he could not hear all hehad to say, and he made haste to find himself some taskthat would admit of no delay: he either snatched up thefork to pitch the hay out of the pens, or ran to get wateror to clear out the dung.Another difficulty lay in the invincible disbelief of thepeasant that a landowners object could be anything elsethan a desire to squeeze all he could out of them. Theywere firmly convinced that his real aim (whatever hemight say to them) would always be in what he did notsay to them. And they themselves, in giving their opinion,745 of 1759
Anna Kareninasaid a great deal but never said what was their real object.Moreover (Levin felt that the irascible landowner hadbeen right) the peasants made their first and unalterablecondition of any agreement bobbi billard video whatever that they should notbe forced to any new methods of tillage of any kind, norto use new implements. They agreed that the modernplough ploughed better, that the scarifier did the workmore quickly, but they found thousands of reasons thatmade it out of the question for them to use either of them;and though he had accepted the conviction that he wouldhave to lower the standard of cultivation, he felt sorry togive up improved methods, the advantages of which wereso obvious. But in spite of all these difficulties he got hisway, and by autumn the system was working, or at least soit seemed to him.At first Levin had thought of giving up the wholefarming of the land just as it was to the peasants, thelaborers, and the bailiff on new conditions of partnership;but he was very soon convinced that this was impossible,and determined to divide it up. The cattle-yard, thegarden, hay fields, and arable land, divided into severalparts, had to be made into separate lots. The simplehearted cowherd, Ivan, who, Levin fancied, understoodthe matter better than any of them, collecting together a746 of 1759
Anna Kareninagang of workers to help him, principally of his ownfamily, became a partner in the cattle-yard. A distant partof the estate, a tract of waste land that had lain fallow foreight years, was with the help of the clever carpenter,Fyodor Ryezunov, taken by six fam bobbi billard video ilies of peasants onnew conditions of partnership, and the peasant Shuraevtook the management of all the vegetable gardens on thesame terms. The remainder of the land was still worked onthe old system, but these three associated partnerships werethe first step to a new organization of the whole, and theycompletely took up Levins time.It is true that in the cattle-yard things went no betterthan before, and Ivan strenuous bobbi billard video ly opposed warm housingfor the cows and butter made of fresh cream, affirmingthat cows require less food if kept cold, and that butter ismore profitable made from sour cream, and he asked forwages just as under the old system, and took not theslightest interest in the fact that the money he received wasnot wages but an advance out of his future share in theprofits.It is true that Fyodor Ryezunovs company did notplough over the ground twice before sowing, as had beenagreed, justifying themselves on the plea that the time wastoo short. It is true that the peasants of the same company,747 of 1759
Anna Kareninathough they had agreed to work the land on newconditions, always spoke of the land, not as held inpartnership, but as rented for half the crop, and more thanonce the peasants and Ryezunov himself said to Levin, Ifyou would take a rent for the land, it would save youtrouble, and we should be more free. Moreover the samepeasants kept putting off, on various excuses, the buildingof a cattleyard and barn on the land as agreed upon, anddelayed doing it till the winter.It is true that Shuraev would have liked to let out thekitchen gardens he had undertaken in small lots to thepeasants. He ev bobbi billard video
