A IN FARMING.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 62, 6 December 1907, Page 3

A IN FARMING.

': /7 IDLENESS. ■ A "farmer; who went into the busi : ness some' fifteen: years ago as a dairy-farm hand «rt! 7 10sra- week', and can now write his choqueffor £5000, gave our Wairarapa cor- ■ responßenV r dn instance of how sloth ofter battensj ; '''npbn • industry.',. This particular • farme?.-ffe'ftde a point of '.working and , improving his farm j he culled his dairy herd; eeleqted only the best stock; wintered them ' well; and his milk yields, , something. liko a ton a day from sixty cows, were published in mantnewspapers, ■■and, in their way, .brought-him tame. ..His neighbour was a ■ r quite a different type, who almost / let hjs- farm and dairy herd take care oi / themeelves; He • became dissatisfied, and / eugg&ted.a sale to our industrious friend, / who goffered practically what the place was worth-at the time..- The neighbour refused the (iffer,, and-.based,'.his.price on the value which.;tno industrious- man-was receiving from his ]"and,y If-ono'Jman could 1 mako'the money, said the neighbour, another could: This,industrial;problem-almost staggered ihc busy'farmer, %ho'early in life had become imbuodt with; certain i Spoialistic ideas, that one main 1 was about as , good as another. He investigated the business of his neighbour's farm, and found that, ho could double the income of what that man was receiving, and he offered a sum in accordance with thai reckoning. As the.amount did not represent a value corresponding with tho busy man's own_ property, the offer was refused by the noighboiir, who later cut up his property, and made a small fortune out of it, wrth-nc difficulty whatever. It is only fair to state that,-, in the course of time, the busy farmei also-sold out at a, good figure, but he justh considers that in'this case, as in many others' industry did not receive its proper reward '