six hours before midday
`` It is so critical in your case that you ought to consult a doctor rather than take lay advice . '' `` Jim Galway says that the thorough way , I mulched my soil before putting in my first crop of alfalfa is a model for all future settlers , '' he ventured . She remarked that Jim was always encouraging to new-comers , and remarked this in a way that implied that some new-comers possibly needed hazing . `` And I am up at dawn and hard at it for six hours before midday . '' `` Yes , it is wonderful ! '' she admitted , with a mock show of being overwhelmingly impressed . `` Nobody in the world ever worked ten hours a day before ! ''