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<blockquote data-quote="Dry Rot" data-source="post: 7581741" data-attributes="member: 4505"><p>There are plenty of small farms in Scotland, they are called 'crofts'. The small farmer is the man who does your fencing, but farms on the side. He runs a small engineering shop part time because the local economy can't afford to finance a large one. They were called blacksmiths. He's the one who delivers your post. He might be the harbour master. Anyway, you get the drift.</p><p></p><p>I visited one of these small farms. The door was answered by a little old lady. It was easy to make a snap judgement. How wrong could I be? One son was a Harley street surgeon. A daughter was a hospital matron. Another son was the captain of an oil tanker. And so on. She'd had six children and every one of them had done well.</p><p></p><p>The fact is a small farm is a great place for growing <em>people</em>. Maybe some of those statisticians could work out how many useful people small farms have produced compared to those living in towns. The wide variety of skills needed to run a small farm compared with a big one, that employs contractors and specialists, is mind boggling when you get down to adding them up. Remove the small farmers and the countryside would be poorer place.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dry Rot, post: 7581741, member: 4505"] There are plenty of small farms in Scotland, they are called 'crofts'. The small farmer is the man who does your fencing, but farms on the side. He runs a small engineering shop part time because the local economy can't afford to finance a large one. They were called blacksmiths. He's the one who delivers your post. He might be the harbour master. Anyway, you get the drift. I visited one of these small farms. The door was answered by a little old lady. It was easy to make a snap judgement. How wrong could I be? One son was a Harley street surgeon. A daughter was a hospital matron. Another son was the captain of an oil tanker. And so on. She'd had six children and every one of them had done well. The fact is a small farm is a great place for growing [I]people[/I]. Maybe some of those statisticians could work out how many useful people small farms have produced compared to those living in towns. The wide variety of skills needed to run a small farm compared with a big one, that employs contractors and specialists, is mind boggling when you get down to adding them up. Remove the small farmers and the countryside would be poorer place. [/QUOTE]
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