Canadian grocer July-December 1898 . output with the least possible expenditure oflabor and capital, to take strict account ofthe various processes of manufacture so asto prevent unnecessary waste. Above allthings he must see to it that the capital em- barked in his business is kept profitablyemployed and not invested in stock andmachinery which stands idle year afteryear, bringing in no return. Slackness inthis respect on the part of the ordinary manof business would very soon result in bank-ruptcy. ^ THE BUSINESS VIEW. These conditions are just as imperativein the case of the farmer as with
Canadian grocer July-December 1898 . output with the least possible expenditure oflabor and capital, to take strict account ofthe various processes of manufacture so asto prevent unnecessary waste. Above allthings he must see to it that the capital em- barked in his business is kept profitablyemployed and not invested in stock andmachinery which stands idle year afteryear, bringing in no return. Slackness inthis respect on the part of the ordinary manof business would very soon result in bank-ruptcy. ^ THE BUSINESS VIEW. These conditions are just as imperativein the case of the farmer as with the manufac-turer or merchant. In order to hold hisown in the face of competition with wheatand stock raisers the world over, he mustabandon slack, unsystemat^~i methods ofdoing things, and utilize Jo the full extentall his resources, insteadrof allowing a largeproportion of them to JiPTdlwJ as is too oftendone. The principal cVfclal okthe farmer ishis land, and any parKoTUheySoil belongingto the farm, whiclrt| either/holly non-pro-. Offices of The Pure Gold Manufacturing Co. ductive or turned to a less profitable usethan it might be, represents so much wastedcapital. Thegreat volume of idle capital possessedby farmers is indicated by the returns of theProvincial Bureau of Industries for 1896,according to which, out of a total of 23,172,-408 acres embraced in the rural munici-palities of the Province, 3,263,390 acres wereclassed as waste land. It is probable thatthe real area of land which could fairly beincluded under this heading is considerablyin excess of these figures. There are com-paratively few farms, even in the best agri-cultural districts, without more or less landwhich, owing either to the situation orinferiority of the soil, is left uncultivated,without being turned to any other profitableuse. There are ridges or crests of landwhere the soil, by washing away, soon be- comes impoverished, and sandy or rockypatches or hillsides, which, by reason oftheir steepness, ar
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