FARMING METHODS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 296, 14 December 1936, Page 6

FARMING METHODS.

I know one farmer who was an upholsterer in a city firm and who just before the depression bought a very ordinary farm with a small herd and with a big mortgage on it. Although he knew nothing about farming he soon learned from a hired man, and he has not asked the Government for revaluations or money to work the farm. He now has a first-class motor car, wireless set, etc., and sticks to his farm, instead of attending races, trots, too many shows, etc., so as to pay off the mortgage, which lie is gradually doing. I also know a Crown tenant who has a farm, with a Government mortgage, for which he pays 4 per cent and has several privileges a private mortgagor has not, who is out motoring to races, agricultural shows, trotting, etc., and always complaining about being short of cash. For four years he did not place any manure on his land and his sliareniilkers lost money with poor cows and poor milk containing very little butterfat. For the month of June, 1931, the sliaremilkers, on one-third share, received 2/. There are hundreds of such farmers in New Zealand. OBSERVER.