The University of Tennesse, always helpful, put out a bulletin entitled "How to go broke farming". It stated 10 basic rules:
1 Grow only one crop
2 Keep no livestock
3 Regard chickens and a garden as nuisances
4 Take everything from the soil and return nothing
5 Don't stop gullies or grow cover crops
6 Don't plan your farming operations
7 Regard your woodlands as you would a coal mine, cut every tree, sell the timber and wear the cleared land out culitvating it in corn
8 Hold fast to the idea that the methods of farming employed by your grandfather are good enough for you
9 Be independent, don't join your with your neighbors in any form of cooperation
10 Mortgage your farm for every dollar it will stand in order to buy things you would have the cash for if you followed a good system of farming.
The kicker is this was published in 1929
1 Grow only one crop
2 Keep no livestock
3 Regard chickens and a garden as nuisances
4 Take everything from the soil and return nothing
5 Don't stop gullies or grow cover crops
6 Don't plan your farming operations
7 Regard your woodlands as you would a coal mine, cut every tree, sell the timber and wear the cleared land out culitvating it in corn
8 Hold fast to the idea that the methods of farming employed by your grandfather are good enough for you
9 Be independent, don't join your with your neighbors in any form of cooperation
10 Mortgage your farm for every dollar it will stand in order to buy things you would have the cash for if you followed a good system of farming.
The kicker is this was published in 1929
