The country folk, in short, saw military conscription as an invasion of their rights, and they rebelled in an attempt to keep the government from taking away their sons.
Through this programme, he taught farmers modern agricultural techniques, of course using his inimitable easy style to relate to the simple country folks.
Smoking a pipe was again relegated to portraits of lowly commoners and country folk and the refined sniffing of shredded tobacco followed by sneezing was rare in art.