TEN WAYS TO RUIN
Hce are (says a writer in The breeders’ Gazette) ten ways to go broke farming and take a trip to the poor-house: 1. —Grow only one crop. 2. Keep no livestock. 3 Regard chickens and a garden as nuisance. 4 Take everything from the soil and return nothing. 5 —Don’t stop gullies or grow cover crops—let the top soil wash away then you will have “bottom” land. 6. —Don’t plan your farm operations as it’s hard work thinking —trust to luck. 7. Regard your woodland as you would a coal mine; cut every tree, sell the timber and cultivate it in corn. 8. —Hold fast to the idea that the methods of farming ernplo. ed by your grandfather are good enough for you. 9. Be independent—don’t join with your neighbours in any form of co-opr.ration. 10. —Mortgage the farm for every dollar it will stand to buy things yon would have cash to buy if you followed a good system ot farming,
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Northland Age, Volume 27, Issue 47, 16 November 1927, Page 3
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