SENTIMENT OF OWNERSHIP

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18471, 7 August 1923, Page 10

SENTIMENT OF OWNERSHIP

To own a farm (writes an Australian agricultural authority) is the ambition of practically every tiller of the soil. Convincing proofs of this statement are met with every day. Farmers may, through circumstances, pay rent, work on shares, or carry along under soma other arrangement with landholders. They, however, invariably look ', forward to the time when they can secure " farms of their own. Nor is this to be wondered at. Ideal conditions exists only when each operation leads on towards • success. In agriculture every incentive to work on up-to-date lines is given to the man who tills his own soil. He works willingly, with a knowledge that full profits are bis at the end of each season's balance. No rent to pay, no land-lord to please, he can start each year's work with a desire'' to improve his holding and increase its productiveness. Every load of manure, and each pound of fertiliser added to the soil goes to keep up the vitality of his own land. A well-planned ■ homestead,', good buildings, substantial fences, handy gates, water tanks, etc., •jive an appearance of thrift and prosperity, and add increased value to his farm. '.;-.. ""hill—i '