MAKING MONEY BY FARMING.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 286, 23 March 1877, Page 4

MAKING MONEY BY FARMING.

The Alfavmj Cultivator speaks of the two rules to this end —t, "Cut short your losses '* and 2, .Lot your profits run on." It says there are many cultivators who do not know when they are losing and when they are gaining. The great requ s' te ft >r success, therefore, is to determine this vital point. The farmer who determines to' know this must, in the first place, measure ail his liehis. Cntit he does- this, he cannot know the amount of labour required to tilt, the quantity of seed required, nor the average product per acre after harvesting the crop. The next thing is to set apart a few minutes every day for recording the operations of his farm in a systematic manner. He must not leave this as the last thing to be attended to, and liable to be forgotten and neglected, but it must bo made as regular and essential as his daily meals. The measurement of his fields, the accurate record each day, under its appropriate fage, of the expenses or profits of each eld, and the wetghing and measuring of everything which passes through his hands, will in a short time educate htm inte> regularity, system, and order, which in itaeif wilt be of great value through life. After some practice, a few minutes wilt be enough at the close of each day, to record the day's operations, arid to place each item of tabor or expenditure under its appropriate head, as well as the receipts or sales. In this way farming would cease to become a haphazard business, and would soon arrive at distinctness and certainty. The owner could easily ascertain where fie is losing and where he is gaining, lie coutd then omit those operations or crops that continuously prove a waste of capital, and retain those only which result in gain, lie could confidentially adoph Ricardo's two rules, to cut short his losses and let his profit* run on.