FARMERS’ DON’TS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 11 April 1928, Page 7

FARMERS’ DON’TS

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j Don’t borrow money when you arc i fully mortgaged. It is criminal in these | had times. Don't buy too much artitieial immure if you can get plenty of dung, because the latter helps tl" soil in two ways. Most people value, farmyard manure far too cheaply. Kirsl-elass sluit is worth anything up 1o ill per ton. although most, farmers grudge paying 10s. which is a mistake. Don't, use artificial fertilisers of low ! analysis. The. higher the analysis the I cheaper the manure.

Don't, rent. a. farm of 100 acres vvhon you can as easily rent one of 500 acres. Don’t cultivate land which is worth less than £1 an acre; it, doesn’t, pay.

Don't, buy, out. of your own country what von can buv in it.

! Don’t, go to t.lio. market when you have i notliing to sell.

Don’t sell produce just, to get. ready cash. When you reach fins stage if. is time you were. out-. Get. ready cash else, where if you can. If you cannot, you have no right to he farming. Tho dif ferenre. in cash between a. forced sale and a willing one is always more Ilian the interest- on aecnniumdafmn money. Don’t, buy stoelc which you ran breed on the premises. Don’t sell from your fa.rm any produce which you ran use in your own household If. is ehraper (with few "x eeptions) to produce, than (o buy Don't- pay income -tax when you have a. loss. But if you do not keep books you may lie called upon during a lease to pay hundreds of pounds which you need not pay. Don’t, grouse, at the weather. Real gamblers never grumble when they back losers. Besides, part of your rent is paid for the weather. Don’i work with your hands (except for exercise’) when your brain is more useful.