Judicious Spending is True Economy.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 409, 9 October 1889, Page 3

Judicious Spending is True Economy.

True economy in farm or household affairs is that which looks to the best and fullest advancement of all interests rather than to cost. Very liberal expenditure of money for improvement is oftentimes advisable in the interest of true economy. Great waste occurs in many insbances by futile endeavours to use imperfect or inadequate means for the accomplishment of a desired object. To illustrate this point, suppose a farmer continues tousean old plough that in its best estate did good service, but badly worn fails to perform, satisfactorily, and, as the result, work when turned off is so poorly done that good crops cannot be expected, the land not having suitable tilling. The saving has been the costof a new plough that would do good service through several years, the loss, perhaps, several times the cost of a new plough. Such saving ia not , ecmumy; ib i-s foolish waste, present saving, future loss. So might illustrations be multiplied a thou sand -fold, as they are, in the practical experiences of many persons. Coming back to the first proposition, It is, economy which saves and gains in the end, notwithstanding present requirement for outlay. When a farmers' club desires a library, numbering a few books, the need apparent to every member, it is pitiful lack of economy to delay the pur- i chase of the books needed, for delay permits opportunities for reading and study to pass by unused, to be lost for ever, while immediate compliance with the the demand brings^ gain' and gratification. Perhaps itf'is'-the' fault of farmer? that they practice too much of what may be called pinching economy, the motive good, the results hurtful.