PLANNING WORK IN ADVANCE

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1033, 12 August 1879, Page 3 (Supplement)

PLANNING WORK IN ADVANCE

(St-it Hfitk Farmer.) Tt is of importance to plan ont the spring work. s>> that the opening of the season you shall know just what fields you wish ploughed, and jiiot where the manuro is corning from, and how much you shall apply, and what crops you shall plant. Such a course will serve to make you more c.-rtatu of your course., and more reliant, and will in many cases absolutely save labour and cost." It is this preliminary blinking and arranging which is so serviceable towards educating into the best courses, and which utilises past experience as an aid in helping you to avoid future waists. It is also well to think out what you ! mil save l»y buying implements or machinery, and justify a ready decision the one way or the other. A horse possesses ;ive times the power of a man, and, if rightly combined, a horse and a man should accomplish six men's labour. If now the spring farming is planned on the basts of horse labour, much more can be efficiently accomplished than hand labour is capable of, <• r haphazard labour which a cn>r» may chance to receive. There is a wide difference between the agricultural productiveness of adjoining farms oftentimes, and to be accounted for by the difference between the men who farm them—the prompt, careful, thoughtful, planning man excelling, in production of crops, the slack, hard-working, laborous, less c.ireJul-thinking neighbor. In fanning, accurate thinking tells ; forethought is ;tn important factor of success. Careful planning and prompt execution can bring success f;> ni almost any farm, or out of conditions usually deemed very unfavorable.