Identifier: churchat24pres (find matches)
Title: Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec. 1898)
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
Subjects: Missions -- Periodicals
Publisher: Philadelphia : Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work
Contributing Library: Presbyterian Historical Society
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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go did so well in the way of reducing hisexpenses per capita in the boarding depart-ment of his school, by furnishing his tablewith the products of a small piece of landwhich he had rented and cultivated withstudent labor, that Mr. S. P. Harbison, amember of the Board, presented the insti-tution with twenty acres of land, in theborder of the town. Mr. Amos will nowhave the opportunity of showing what he can do, in the way of maintaining his schoolfrom the products of the soil, unembar-rassed by the heavy rent that he previouslyhad to pay. He seems pleased with theprospect and confident as to the outcome.An extract from his report on this pointcannot fail to interest those who are partialto the industrial and agricultural trainingof the youth of this race: The outlook for no deficit in the futureis bright, since Mr. Harbison has given ussome land. We calculate that we can raiseall our vegetables, our meal, our hominy,and two-thirds of our meat. This will be 142 SWIFT MEMORIAL. (August,
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X 1898.) SWIFT MEMORIAL. 143 a saving of three or four hundred dollarsby this means which we can divert torepairs, etc., a sum of money that at pres-ent we invest in supplies. We deemed it wise to make our landprofitable to us at once, and accordingly weinvested in a cow, some pigs, and in seedsof various kinds, and in tools and feed tocarry on the farm. We have had to supplyourselves with meat and meal, flour andmolasses for the boys to eat who tend to thefarm. These items are all grouped in theexpenditures for this year. Things in connection with the farm arelooking well. The corn is growing well.The crops we have invested in include thirtyvarieties of things—corn, beans, peas,cabbage, callards, coffee-berry. beets,potatoes. peppers, cucumbers, onions,squash, tomatoes, okra, molasses-cane,celery, ruta-bagas, salsify, pumpkins,citrons, oats, etc. We have twelve hogs that will average125 pounds each. We have two bee gumsand intend to make a specialty of raisinghoney. We have a dozen

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