The amusing thing is that either you're an unsuccessful farmer, and run ragged trying to keep up with the work, or a successful farmer, with employees and equip

The amusing thing is that either you're an unsuccessful farmer, and run ragged trying to keep up with the work, or a successful farmer, with employees and equipment and spreadsheets to organize the work. Or have "income from a publisher in New York", a criticism a contemporary made of Thoreau in his Walden period.