Malting Farms Valuable.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1629, 5 October 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

Malting Farms Valuable.

To inete&fe the value of his iand is for the great nsbjerity cf farmers the readiest and most obvious means of making money. This is occuruonly attempted by securing the cooperation oi others. In a new country each additional settler cdcls to the worth of all the land in his neighborhood, provided he be bonetst and able and willing to work. If a railroad can be induced to establish a station on cr ne&r tbe farm, its value appreciates btill more. M&ny a man has been made wealthy by the increased value of#his ori&iual purebssa of a farm from the (.■lowing up of a village or city near it. Tiiess f ic:a h&va to some extent diverted ths minds of fa; mere from their true business. Is has brought rnaay to consider the buying cf lend as a Bort of speculation, instead of for the purpose of working and imprevkg i;. Yet it is in farm improvement, if judiciously followed, that good farmers must look for the greater portion of their profits. The i&tm horn year to jeer is expected to afford ' them a living and pay cost of cultivation, wear and depreciation cf iools. If the farmer epparesis^- n^skes more ihsa tL]?, It he ehiaa the 2&d<3, &c i« is vzikd, to put money in the bank or in other i&ve&ttDtniß, it is teasoniiiAy certain that he its to that extent deprecifctiiig tbe valus of hi 3 land. His so-called (?iv;rf*r=d3 ere in reality taken fiom hjs capital,