FARM SAVING.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2031, 10 April 1890, Page 3

FARM SAVING.

’VVaIJo F. Brown, in the Cultivator and Country Gentleman, strives to impress on every farm hand the importance of saving and carefully investing a part of his wages. If he saves 100 dollars in the first year of work it may be worth more to him than 1000 dollars a few years latter. Mr Brown would much rather a son of his should earn by his own labor 100 dollars the first year he was his own master than to have him make 1000 dollars by speculation, and if he found he had saved three-fourths of his wages he would feel that his financial future was safe. He has bad four hands in the last five years, and but one of them saved a dollar of his year’s wages. It looks like a slow way to get a start in the world to lay up a hundred dollars a year, but he who does it in a few years has enough to buy a team and tools to begin as a renter, or to make a payment on a piece of land which will be a home for him, Mr Brown has met at institutes and other farm gatherings during the last ten years thousands of the leading farmers of several States, and he has often been surprised to find that the best and wealthiest among them began life as farm-laborers, and fought the battle of life single-handed. It took Mr Brown throe years of hard work to save 300 dollars, but those 300 dollars were worth to him more than he could possibly have foreseen at the time. There are plenty of openings on the farm for young men of pluck and principle, and the chances of success are as good now as when he started.