Smyrna times., 1895-12-11
Saint JOseph's Catholic Industrial Home
for COlOred Orphan Boys Near
Clayton.
COTrespondence 70 the "smrrna rimns ,,

n NlslJ by invitation to this new be-
nevolent and charitable institution
= which has recently been located on the
Q farm adjoining or nearby the model
and imposing town Of Clayton, revealed
| marvellous change and Improvement
which has been made in the farm which
was bought by the present owners dur
I ing last spring. The farm contains
l about l4O acres Of land, and the former
owners seemed not to be successful in
: working it protitably, so that it has
changed owners at various times until
during last spring when it was wisely
, selected and purchased on account of
location relative to railroad facilities
, north and south, being near the line of
, the Delaware railroad and the progress
slve and improving town of CLAYTON
which is lighted nightly with oil lamps
and supplied with water for extinguish-
ing fires, and many other conveniences.
The fertility of the farm and general
condition of the land. has been run
down by neglect or want of intelligent.
wise and proper cultivation. but the
future outlook the writer feels assured
Judging from a conversation had with
the person whose master mind will
hereafter direct the operations of the
farm be greatly improved so that within
the near future it is confidently ex-
pected that all crops grown will double
those in yield hitherto produced.
1t has seldom been the writer's priv
ilege of talking with a person whose
practical knowledge and general ideas
equal those of Father De Reyder, who
IS not theOrist nor an experimentalist.
His ideas are eminently practical and
everything he has done is with an eve
to economy and utility which is abso-
lutely essential to the successful man
agement of all business but to none
more than agriculture or farming.
He contemplates making the ferti-
llzer to be used on the farm so that he
Will know all the ingredients it will
contain. The essential and manurial
ingredients will be saved and obtained
on the farm. The voidings of the |
cows, horses, hogs and poultry will all |
be carefully looked after, as well as the
wood ashes out of which with the adj
dition of muck, gypsum and other in
gradients the fertilizer will be made.
and no ingredient will be used but of
itself is good for plant food.
The hog house and pens are models
for the comfort, convenience of feed
ing and fattening the hogs, and the ar
rangements made for sows with Young
pigs Is complete and all that could be
desired. Here good Judgment has been
exercised both regarding light and
shelter as well as the arrangements.
and 1t may be stated that there is no
hog house to be found in the county or
IN the State that is so admirably ar
ranged. All the manure made by the
hogs is carefully looked after and care
fully husbanded, when the pens that
toored with boards are daily cleaned :
out with scrupulous care. :
The stable for cows is large build
ing conveniently arranged to hold forty
COWS. 1t has ten feet passage down
the middle, on either side of which are
arranged twenty stalls about three feet :;
wide with managers in which the food
Is put, being cut fodder or clover hav
mixed with corn meal or wheat bran
which may be regarded as the very best A
food for the COWS during the winter =
months. Arrangements for cutting the =
fodder and hay are with cutting ma
chine IN the stable loft where it is
stored and the power for running the :.
cutter is to be obtained from the steam =,
engine. After the hay and fodder are =;
cut 1t is put into schute when desired =
Tor feeding and by the aid of slide or =,
cutoff is run into troughs on the first /,
1oor made for the purpose of mixing
With meal CT bran. The COWS when in
heir respective stalls for feeding and
milking are all haltered by chain S,
lround their necks, which is regarded
IS more convenient than otherwise and
S quickly fastened and unfastened as J
nay be desired, tn
Back of the COW stalls is a gutter or al
rough which runs the whole length of ssu
he stable on either side, into which all ca
he voiding of the cows are put and O.
onveyed to place made therefore so
S be ready to be made into fertilizers IN
Then desired. 1t is carried into a be
overed receptacle, where it is held
ntil required for pumping over :
manure or for use in I
laking fertilizer. n,
There are in this stable, box stalls an
1r calves and yearlings, conveniently mI
and located A herd of Hol- i0-
cows occupy part of
ais stable, which it is stated, cost the b
resent owner 800 each, the calves
ON which sell from $95 to S35 each.
,cording to age and size. The bal S
nee OF the herd are mostly grades but we
IS intended to have all thoroughbred me
-olstein as fast as can be conveniently the
'ocured.
no Ae'e' VI oSVdDushlnS q creamery =
the farm is contemplated, in order
manufacture butter, which it was ota
ated, could find ready and good tne
arket at Norfolk, Va, the year around no'
7 thirty cents a pound to be used in on'
,spitals. Dla
Adjoining the stable for COWS is the a
able for horses, colts and Agricultural IAN
lplements, which is al the end Of the pies
W stable and divided therefrom by mis-
ding door, so that any part Of either terry
able may be reached without going nay
tslde. On the second floor of this sue
able was seen a number of colOred ~ ~
,vs. pnn;ls WITH tbo;, ;,,s+,,,ot,, -, fed
ged in huslxing corn, which had been 4
lied from the stalk and housed in
der to obtain the huslEs for the pur-
Sc Of making into mattresses on the -
IN. These boys age ranged from lesV
elve to sixteen probably, were all siiei
II clothed and seemed cheerful and A''''
as we'll as they might be for
ax a,,o wall Cal 1o1o.a,1 ~ .1.,..l -,