BUSH-FARMING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 78, 22 May 1911, Page 2

BUSH-FARMING.

Writing under the til.lo “.flush Farming,” a correspondent of the Ohristchurch “Press” says Suppose two men take live lumclrcd acres cadi. Let ten years elapse. One man had money enough to put down all his hush the first year and has had nine years’ -taking off the place The other man put down fifty acres the first year, and was six or sever years in getting all down. Ho ha;, had the greatest difficulty to finance at all. He has only been running the cheapest, kind of stock. Which of these men lias got the best returns!-' Is it necessary to see hi; books? No, hush does not fall like the walls of .Jericho. You may talk of axes and good right arms, yin: may throw in the left as well, but it boils down to money, and the more money' yon have to start with tin less it will cost you to get your husk down. And any man would ho better olf on wages than at putting Id own hush down, save for one hard and solemn fact. No man or wages has lived as hard and frugally as the hush settler simply lias to. When it comes to humping all you. stores in on your hack, your bnc.cei hill is not a heavy one, though on are cruelly pushed to meet it at ;,ii Ami, anyhow, is money everything? You meet the bush man at the show, and you write of him as hearty and halo. . .Have .you ever examined idhands? Have, you counted Ids sear.-,; limbs have been broken? May I m-m----.ion rheumatism? Or heart strain ; Four pounds an acre? Yes, but hov. many years of life? “Good Lord, in ha’ paid in full.”