John Bergson had the Old-World belief that land,in itself, is desirable. But this land was an enigma.It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces.He had an idea that no one understood how to farm it properly, and this he often discussed with Alexandra.Their neighbors, certainly, knew even less about farming than he did. Many of them had never worked on a farm until they took up their homesteads.They had been HANdWeRKeRS at home; tailors,locksmiths, joiners, cigar-makers, etc. Bergson himself had worked in a shipyard.