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How would George Henderson get on today?
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<blockquote data-quote="DeeGee" data-source="post: 3145136" data-attributes="member: 6695"><p>George Henderson and his brother took on derelict land at, IIRC, Oathill Farm, and worked almost every hour God gave them. The profit figures given at the end of the book are pretty astounding if you multiply them by about 50 times to get to today's values.</p><p>I will agree that they had little time for socialising away from the farm; but essentially they made a farming business work very profitably at a time when many large established farms were leaving their land grow wild as they deemed that there were basically no returns to be had from farming it.</p><p>Above all else, it seems that they dealt fairly and honestly with everyone; so their success was earned through hard work and honest endeavour without conning or swindling people in order to achieve their returns.</p><p>I have read 'The Farming Ladder' some three times over the past fifty years; and many of it's facts and figures were hopelessly out of date the first time my father gave it to me to read in the 1960's. What stands the test of time and endures to this day however is their ethos of enterprise, hard work, straight dealing and honesty. Must read it again before too long.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DeeGee, post: 3145136, member: 6695"] George Henderson and his brother took on derelict land at, IIRC, Oathill Farm, and worked almost every hour God gave them. The profit figures given at the end of the book are pretty astounding if you multiply them by about 50 times to get to today's values. I will agree that they had little time for socialising away from the farm; but essentially they made a farming business work very profitably at a time when many large established farms were leaving their land grow wild as they deemed that there were basically no returns to be had from farming it. Above all else, it seems that they dealt fairly and honestly with everyone; so their success was earned through hard work and honest endeavour without conning or swindling people in order to achieve their returns. I have read 'The Farming Ladder' some three times over the past fifty years; and many of it's facts and figures were hopelessly out of date the first time my father gave it to me to read in the 1960's. What stands the test of time and endures to this day however is their ethos of enterprise, hard work, straight dealing and honesty. Must read it again before too long. [/QUOTE]
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