FIRST MAKE A LIVING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1908, 6 February 1885, Page 2

FIRST MAKE A LIVING.

Tho Texas Farmer hits the nail squarely wljen if as;jortEj tluu) "in growing crops inevleasng and, first piirppijq should be : to-makd i; a:living:'': v '^siffiouldbe the first object in all pursuits. A man must make a' living'before Jio -can make'extra ijjqney, h.?nce v }t jff a pqint fif the utmost jinppftancje fpr. "farmers tp ! 'grpw their im\\\y tawig to b«y •th,em/.' : If.he rajsog. nearly everything needed for home consumption lie is independent and with a variety of small drops he is absolutely, protected against a total failure, The farmer.whose first object Is to make a living oh'his farm, worksior himself and family, while tho all-cotton man works for speculators and gamblers,, and they always beat him. Bank, may fail, stocks may, vanish' into thin air and panics inay h,r|qg and ruin tij anj pe'eujatjjr, bu|;. tljp fanner who "farms" for a living is' gafe. Hja. has''no, %bts, no rest, "His food is at home, his bairns are hia storehouse. The man who farms for a Hying works by the rule of good common sense; the farmer who tries to make .money before he makes a living works by the rule of Borne other kind of sense.. A little more common sense mixed with ordinary industry wjll make farmers the most prosperous and fiappy people in fhe Farmers have wprkeq'lqnf ; % pflujajjprs, and Shylpck?; jetthetnturn their attention to home, wife, children, and cquntry."' We haye mere than onoe pprejsed 'jiißt the name views as the above on the subject of farming In New Zealand. Too many colonials who Bay they can't make a decent living at farming have never tried to do it. They worry themselves to death, and get Bold up trying to get rich quickly. A farm is a good nag that will carry you and your family well along the road that leads to easy competence, bo long as you. dopt push it top hard with spjiff ;qj borrowed capital. Jif yqu.jio thai,"]nppin'g'tp make; : a pife by a jfeW luckj gpe"cuiativfi sfrpkes, the onancoa 'ara'.' yqi} .wjil come, a financial, cropper very, ggpn,' P? perhaps drag.on a miserable existanoe for years, a slave of the aoil for the benefit, of some banker mortgage'e.' To'ievery Now Zealandfarmer we say, " Make your farm keep •you'; don't let .yourself slide into, the .wretched position' of .violent itruggling tokeepyqurfapm. If itpQirjeg tq that,' : ra^erlefit.go,.and.start, afreiih 9" a hew system and a new farm. f •