Out past the last streetlight the drives in Larkin Township get long — two hundred feet of gravel between the road and the door, sugar beet ground on both sides with nothing standing to slow the wind. Hubbards Tractor Services and Snowplowing brings a tractor to that kind of country, pushing and stacking snow back far enough that the next storm has room to land. In the warm half of the year the same acreage gets mowed and trimmed, the rough edges taken down, the yard given a border again. Big property asks for equipment that matches it, and there is a plain pleasure in seeing a quarter-mile drive opened end to end. The mailbox stands clear, the turnaround is wide, and the day can proceed.