THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES
Ten Ways To Ruin
“Here are,” says a writer in the October issue of “The New Zealand Farmer,” ten ways to “go broke” farming and take a trip to the poorhouse:—(l) Grow only one crop; (2) keep no live-stock; (3) regard fowls and a garden as nuisances; (4) take everything from the soil and return nothing; (.3) don’t stop gullies or grow cover crops—let the top soil wash away, then you will have “bottom” land; (6) don t plan your farming operations—it’s hard thinking—trust to luck; (7) regard your shelter bush as you would a coal mine—cut- every tree, sell the timber and wear the cleared land out cultivating it- in crops; (8) hold fast to the idea that the methods of farming employed by your grandfather are good enough for you; (9) be independent—don’t join with your neighbours in any form of co-operation;- (10) mortgage vour farm for every pound it will stand to buy things you would have cash to buy if you followed a good system of farming.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 October 1927, Page 2
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175THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES Hokitika Guardian, 11 October 1927, Page 2
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