TEN WAYS TO RUIN.
Here are (says a writer in the Breeders’ Gazette) ten ways to go broke farming and take a trip to the poorliouse: (1) Grow only one crop'; (2) keep no live stock; (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 wilt have “bottom” land; (0; don’t plan your farm operations—it's hard work thinking; trust to luck; (7) regard your woodland as you would a coal mine—cut every tree and sell the timber and wear tiie 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; (3) he independent—don’t join with your neighbours in any form of cooperation; (10) mortgage the farm for every dollar it will stand to buy things you would have cash to buy if you folgood system of farming.
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Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17242, 29 October 1927, Page 22 (Supplement)
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167TEN WAYS TO RUIN. Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17242, 29 October 1927, Page 22 (Supplement)
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