Why Some Farmers do not Succeed

Southland Times, Issue 4493, 4 December 1882, Page 3

Why Some Farmers do not Succeed

♦ The Southern Farmers Monthly gives the following reasons why some farmers do no. succeed : — They are not active and industrious. They are slothful in everything. They do not keep up with improvements. They are wedded to old methods. They give no attention to details. They think small things not important. They take no pleasure in their work. They regard labor as a misfortune. They weigh and measure stingily. They are wasteful and improvident. They let their gates sag and fall down, They let their fowls roost in the trees. They do not enrry their horses. They leave their ploughs in the field. They hang the harness in the dust. They prit off greasing the waggon They starve tne call and milK the cow, They don't know the best is the cheapest. They have no method or system. They see no good in a new thing. They never use paint on the farm. They prop the barn door with a rail. They milk the cows late in the day They have no time to do things weU. They do not read tbe newspapers and books.