West of Howell the section roads run straight through corn and hay, and the yards out there are wide enough to see weather coming from a mile off. Baldwin services keeps those places in order through the mowing months — grass cut on a steady rotation, trimmed close along posts, mailboxes and fence lines. When the ground hardens and the first real storm comes through, the work turns to opening long drives and the walks beside them. It is plain, useful labor, and the reward is simple: a yard that looks tended in July and a drive you can back out of in January. Howell and the country west of it get both from the same hands.