They agreed that an English plough ploughed better, that a scarifier worked quicker, but they found a thousand reasons why they could not use either the one or the other; and, though he was convinced that it would be necessary to lower his standards of farming, he disliked having to give up improvements the benefit of which was so clear.
Estaban conformes en que el arado moderno trabajaba mejor, en que el arado mecánico era preferible, pero hallaban mil causas para justificar el no emplearlos ellos. Levin comprendía que tendría que rebajar el nivel de la economía rural y renunciar a perfeccionamientos de una evidente ventaja.