Both Uses of

prosperity
in
A Thousand Acres

Most magically, tile produced prosperity—more bushels per acre of a better crop, year after year, wet or dry.†
p. 15.5 *

prosperity = a state of doing well -- especially economically

The sense of distinct events that is so inescapable on a farm, where every rainstorm is thick with odor and color, and usefulness and timing, where omens of prosperity or ruin to come are sought in every change, where any of the world's details may contain the one thing that above all else you will regret not knowing, this sense lifted off me.†
p. 336.6