112 the foliage of the fruit trees which surround them. Turning from the village the eye is refreshed by the verdure of the meadows that stretch away on either hand, where not even a stick or chip is to be seen to mar the beauty of the green sward. Formerly the sound of a horn at daybreak called’ them to their labors. A bell now calls the' laborers to their tasks. They mostly work in groups, in a plodding but systematic manner that accomplishes much The coarse and primi- . tive tools of former years, have been laid aside, and their agriculture is now carried . on by means of the latest improved modern machinery. Fifty years ago the womedi as-' sisted in the labor in the fields. Their language and costume werh that of Germany. A visitor ih the village at that day might have seen them going about the streets with . implements 6f tabor on their shoulders, their faces shaded by large circular hats of straw —or with their hair combed straight back from their foreheads and tied under a coarse blue cap of cotton, toting upon their heads baskets of apples or' tubs of milk. Systematic division of labor is a prominent feature in d'heir domestic economy, although
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