TEN WAYS TO RUIN
TAKING A TRIP TO THE POORHOUSE Here 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 nuisances. (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. It’s hard work thinkingtrust to luck. (7) Regard your woodland as you would a coal mine: cut every tree, sell the timber and wear the cleared land out cultivating it in corn. (8) Hold fast to the idea that the methods of farming employed by your grandfather are good enough for you. (9) Be independent—don’t join with your neighnours in any form of cooperation. (10) Mortgage your farm for every dollar it will stand to buy things you would have cash to buy if you followed a good system of farming.
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Southland Times, Issue 23182, 24 April 1937, Page 14
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174TEN WAYS TO RUIN Southland Times, Issue 23182, 24 April 1937, Page 14
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