LARGE FARMS.
Most people are attracted by the show of great business, and the desire to extend operation is very general. But a man who can successfully manage 100 acres, may not be able to run a 500 or 1000-aore farm, and many men who can profitably work a farm by their own labor, fail when they try to do so by hired help. To so manage a number of working men that every hour’s work of each shall be made to concentrate upon one desired object, requires much ability. For want of this, many who have become “well off” on a small farm, have failed on a large one where they had to employ help. A man may be worthily ambitious of success in business, but before he leaves a small farm, for one much larger, be should be satisfied of his ability to manage it. It is not anew thing for a man to land-poor, even though the land itself is of good quality. As with extensive and overgrown nations, large farms might sometimes be of more Value to all concerned if they were divided up and each part put under a partial or entirely separate management.
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Western Star, Issue 374, 21 August 1880, Page 5 (Supplement)
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