Ontario Agricultural College epub The O. A. C. Review, Vol. 32: April 1920 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The O. A. C. Review, Vol. 32: April 1920The farmer must keep books, showing the loss or gain on every animal or crop raised. This is a very useful procedure, and might it not be carried into the regions where it is most sadly needed?Why should not the nation open a set of accounts with every class or trade and every individual there concerned? For then it could be determined whether the profes'sional man, agent, and middleman were keeping the nation or the nation keeping them; it could be deduced what these people are doing to earn the farmers' good potatoes, milk, bread and fruit which they are certainly consuming.We hear great outcries about the high cost of living, yet every farmer ought to know the reason for it. The cost of living is high because we have a vast horde of useless people living upon us, and the only remedy is to turn these parasites into producers of essentials. Let the nation keep records of performance, and have various sorts of Ba'bcock tests and trap nests for all the middlemen, insurance agents, government officials, bankers, professional men, capitalists, land agents and all others of their like. Justice and sane living demand that they return goods equal to the goods received.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.