THE YOUNG FARMER 



The same principle applies to supplies. 

 If one starts into raising horses for sale, he 

 needs to have some money or other income 

 on which his laborers and his own family 

 can live, say for five years, this being the 

 age at which a horse is supposed to become 

 salable. More people would raise apples 

 and horses if they could afford to wait for 

 the return on the investment. 



While this is a serious handicap, it is an 

 advantage to the man who arranges his 

 farming methods so that he can secure an 

 income from some other source in the in- 

 terim. The young farmer will do wisely to 

 so arrange his farm methods that a portion, 

 perhaps the major portion of his farm, will 

 give him quick returns while making 

 some long-time investments, which later in 

 life will give him a greater return because 

 so few people are sufficiently forehanded to 

 make them. 



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