THE FARMER
A SCHOOLBOY'S ESSAY STARES BACK AT RUIX The following essay on "The Farmer," written by a schoolboy has been sent in by a reader: — "Father says farmers have had a bad harvest this. year. He says most of the farmers will be ruined, same as they were last year, and the year before. Father says, when ruin stares a farmer in the face, lie stares back and bUfys a motor car. He says farming is the only business where j'ou can be ruined every year and make: it pay. "A farmer once told father he had lost money for 20 years, but father says he must have had a —• of a lot of money to start with. After harvest comes the harvest festival when the farmers take their largest vegetable marrow to church. Father says a farmer's ambition is to grow a marrow so big that he can scoop it out and live in it."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 175, 3 November 1941, Page 6
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157THE FARMER Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 175, 3 November 1941, Page 6
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