First Make a Living.
l il The i-OJexas -farmer. ' Jrit^ y the square^ when MU&seHiS tfrAfe^'lio^FQ. l^ ing (crops the leading- and first purpose 'should be to make a living. This should .heLt|Le-first'objebi^n alliptrßditaaiA:man> must first make a living before he can piatfe'&tbijtQ'tb.oti&ifii hdncejdfe iso jt/pj^nt s ,of ,tb!e utmost importance for farmers to gr,^w their afftmllyi supplies^ (Without hay t7 'm» to buy them. If he raises nearly 'everything needed for .home consumption he is independent, and with a variety of small, crops her is absolutely protected r.whose first object is, to make a . living on r ; Mßjfarm, works for Rim'self aria*' family, while the all-cotton ;man works for : --'sptieAlators and gamblers, and they [i always beat^him^ißanks m#y c faiC|fcp£ks mayjvanish into air, ana panics may 1 bring desolation and euin-to the mer--. .chant, mechanic, and speculator, but the )farmfer'Kwhß^ffis^A^n'g\iS^i. , Heshasho debts, rib^Smor-tgiiges'Mta disturb jhis rest. His food is at home, his barns are his store. house. A little more" gpomi ion sense mixed wish ordinary infHustiy will'inaTce^larmgr^the most prosperous r happy!^bple;m the State.,. ; lp^lenough fpi~ % peci^latl^s^d S&jiocia-; l«V'ifiem.,t^|it;' : wife, cMpOTij.. and oount^* more than 'once-: expre^sed^usfr i*me jvie^ '£* tie above on ; theTsubject ' . pf fermingj in\H4w< Zealand^" Too * many 'cploniaT farmers who say they , cariho't ,ir>ake a, .decent living! at farming never try^to do it. They! woixy^ rtheilaselves^.to deaths md' gefr sola i ufe tiymg * to. g'etf rictf qaickl^.-' Alarm is a good nag that will carry you ]and yjour family^wejF ilongi th^tfadthat leads Ito easy competence,' so long a^*vou ' ddn't [push it too hard with-the whip and spurs .' qf o bjMarftwed: { capital.?; ilf you 1 do that, hoping to make a H pjil,e, by a few lucky jspeculative strokesj Jhe. chances are fyou'ivlill^co^e ar financial cropper very i soon, jrvr'pernt^s "ara'g, on . ; a miserable' existence rorVeafsl'E-slave'ot the s'oilw the be nettibff efome bank- or -dtlttr wtotV-' gagee oJUditxiixy New Zealand -farmer:: ! w& sa;r;»M^%yQ* l^'^ : W l '^®! B P''J ou^ ndtliphyour^e^slidflointft th«(. ( w^etqhed}. positite^of, vml^t jStru^gi.p W your farm. It, it copies that, rather let it go, ari^Start'a'fresb! on' W .neW system' and a tfew farm^ExQhange; wv ":' l<l i'! r -
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 34, 8 July 1885, Page 2
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351First Make a Living. Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 34, 8 July 1885, Page 2
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