WAYS TO RUIN

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 200, 12 November 1927, Page 25 (Supplement)

WAYS TO RUIN

AN ENGLISH OPINION Ten avenues to the poorhouse are given in an English farming exchange. They are: Grow only one crop. Keep no live stock. Regard chickens and a garden as nuisances. Take everything from the soil and return nothing. Don’t stop gullies or grow cover crops—let the top soil wash away, then you will have “bottom'’ land. Don’t plan your farm operations—it’s hard work thinking, trust to luck. Regard your woodland as you would a coal mine—cut every tree and sell the timber and wear the cleared land out cultivating it in corn. Hold fast to the idea that the methods of farming employed by your grandfather are good enough for you Be independent—don’t join with v our neighbours in any form of co-opera-tion. Mortgage the farm for every dollar it will stand to buy things you would have cash to buy if you followed a i good system of farming. South African Woo!.—South Africans are very intent on pushing their sheep and wool industry. They axe leaving no stone unturned to improve the general quality of the sheep. At a recent conference of the Transvaal Agricultural Union a motion was carried that the Government be urged to have more sheep and wool experts appointed.