If one farmer was doing far better for himself than the others, someone might say that it was because of him having a tomte on the farm, doing " ungodly " work and stealing from the neighbours.

If the weed patch is vigorous enough, the farmer may mow the patch first before tilling.

If the actual price of wheat rises greatly between planting and harvest, the farmer stands to make a lot of unexpected money, but if the actual price drops by harvest time, he could be ruined.

If at planting time the farmer sells a number of wheat futures contracts equivalent to his anticipated crop size, he effectively locks in the price of wheat at that time: the contract is an agreement to deliver a certain number of bushels of wheat to a specified place on a certain date in the future for a certain fixed price.

If prices stayed low, the farmer still had enough money to live as well as plant next year.

If a farmer fulfilled the five-year plan early he would be awarded a share of the crops.

If the Tomte is ignored or maltreated or the farm is not cared for, he can sabotage a lot of the work on the farm to teach the farmer a lesson or two.

If a subsistence farmer in Uganda grows his own grain it will count as income.

One Lake District farmer summed the problem up as, " We get 100, 000 visitors across our land every year ... If just one in a thousand forgets to shut a gate or can't be bothered, that's a hundred times we have to go out and round up our sheep.

If he becomes a farmer or a rancher, he will take over the family farm.

If, for example, in a very small economy, a farmer and a mechanic, with just $ 50 between them, buy new goods and services from each other in just three transactions over the course of a year

If a farmer wanted to send a cow to market, he would have to send two calves to balance it, which would travel back on opposite sides of the same freight wagon, thereby balancing each other.

When a child is being born they repeat the old proverb which says: " If the newborn is a son he will become a farmer and if a girl she will become carpet weaver.

If the player gets his or her troops killed often, regularly hires and dismisses members or generally is insensitive ( such as not paying for deceased merc body shipments back home ), his or her reputation will lower.

He explained his support for laws unfavorable to gays in this way: " If someone hires you to paint their house red, then you paint it red.

" If Joey then fires some of old employees and hires new ones, the new employees will inherit the contents of the bank account under this provision.

If man is actually the product of his environment and if science can discover the laws of human nature and the ways in which environment determines what people do, then someone -- a someone probably standing outside traditional systems of values -- can turn around and develop completely efficient means for controlling people.

-- If there are outside windows in the basement corner where you build a shelter, they should be shielded as shown in the Appendix, page 29.

If your principal place of abode for the tax year is outside the United States ( including Alaska and Hawaii ), Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands and you have no legal residence or principal place of business in any Internal Revenue district in the United States, you should file your return with the Office of International Operations, Internal Revenue Service, Washington 25, D.C..

If you are dreaming of a blue, shimmering pool right outside your living room windows, close your eyes firmly and fill in the picture with lots and lots of children, damp towels, squashed tubes of suntan oil and semi-inflated plastic toys.

`` If there was collusion between an outside murderer and a member of the household it would be an elementary precaution to check on the door later.

If one also removes the second postulate (" a line can be extended indefinitely ") then elliptic geometry arises, where there is no parallel through a point outside a line, and in which the interior angles of a triangle add up to more than 180 degrees.

If the celebration takes place outside of Mass, it can be held in the home, in a hospital or institution, or in church.

* Split ( only available as first decision of a hand ): If the first two cards have the same value, the player can split them into two hands, by moving a second bet equal to the first into an area outside the betting box of the original bet.

: If I'm outside, I have my wallet on me.

If the old exoskeleton is not too thick it also may be possible to see new structures, such as setae, from outside.

If morning rush traffic can be heard from outside, if researchers or maintenance staff appear at the same time each day, an experiment can be ruined by masking.

If confirmed, this would imply special relativity is an approximation to a more general theory, but since the relevant comparison would ( by definition ) be outside the observable universe, it is difficult to imagine ( much less construct ) experiments to test this hypothesis.

If international finance Jewry in and outside Europe should succeed in thrusting the nations once again into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevisation of the earth and with it the victory of Jewry, but the destruction of the Jewish race in Europe.

If he were to celebrate a triumph, he would have to remain a soldier and stay outside the city until the ceremony, but to stand for election he would need to lay down his command and enter Rome as a private citizen.

If it is not raining outside, then is false ; and if there is no cold-front over Kansas, then is false.

If a politician, again regardless of party, were to speak outside of this range, he or she would receive negative press or be ignored.

If the defendant meets the procedural requirement, the motion will normally be considered by the judge outside the presence of the jury.

If the alarm indicates a hawk diving toward the colony, all the prairie dogs in its flight path dive into their holes, while those outside the flight path stand and watch.

If a player goes outside the path, they next start where their pencil left the track.

If this is typical, one way of discovering an extraterrestrial civilization might be to detect non-natural radio emissions from a location outside our Solar System.

If the center of gravity exists outside the foundations, then the body is unstable because there is a torque acting: any small disturbance will cause the body to fall or topple.

If they become plugged by debris, water begins flowing over the outside, depositing more calcite and creating the more familiar cone-shaped stalactite.

If the setter does this well, the opponent's middle blocker may not have enough time to block with the outside blocker, increasing the chance for the attacking team to make a point.

If the program rating is outside the level configured as acceptable on that particular television the program is blocked.

If two points are connected by a wormhole, the time taken to traverse it would be less than the time it would take a light beam to make the journey if it took a path through the space outside the wormhole.