The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-06-17
4 BOUKHOBOR COLONY
Progress Made BY Russian Ex-
lies In Canada.
THRIFTY FARMERS IN NORTHWEST

Several Thousand Acres Under Guilt
walton = Modern Methods and Ma
chinery observation-disclosures Of Col
onists Intends 10 Connect Their
villages by Telephone ana Rail-
ways WIN Experiments in Fruit
Culture.
When successive DEGREES issued by
the car Ave years ago made il almost
impossible for tie Doukhobors TO live
| IN Russia they gladly accepted an offer
Of home in the Canadian northwest
with the the result that they are now q
free people, with farms and money Of
their own, says Winnipeg aisn.) dis,
patch Is tile New York Herald
Peter yeregin. their leader, has been
III tile colony Of Yorkton eighteen
months and during that short time has
| changed the character Of the commune,
introducing modern methods and build
iug up an organization out Of chaos.
Several thousand acres Of land have
4 been broken, ana the area under culti-
walton this year viii be much greater
than last.
AL first these people were assisted by
! ouakers from Philadelphia, but they
have since progressed 50 much that
they are now we'll able to take care Of
themselves. They have large quanti-
ties Of farm machinery aud one q their
latest acquisitions Is a steam pillow, AZ
present there are eight steam engines
belonging TO the commune, and during
the year they have been there they
have not been idle. a single working
day. These engines are moved about
+ from place to place as occasion re-
4 auires. 50 that full use is made q them.
Yeregin purposes to connect the VII
! lagos Of the colony by telephone and
later viii join them by narrow gauge
railways He IS not q visionary man
! but eminently practical aud man o.
! affairs
y a large warehouse for storing goods
! Is being built on tie Canadian Pacific
railway ia d central location, and wher
I the crop Is larger elevators viii y
!. built TO hold the grain. The Douk
hobors crop amounted Inst year +
100000 bushels Of wheat, barely
enough to supply their own wants
owing to their plan Of sowing fax O
the newly broken land the wheat crol
E does not increase as fast as i other
s wise would. yeregin IS about 70 e1
periment III fruit culture and also i
2 growing tiax suitable for weaving.
2 The commune has bought 9 brick an
e tue making plant. and gradually II
= log houses viii be replaced by brieI
i and the sod roofs by tiles. The build
d me Of 50 many new railways in tn
s vicinity Of the colony enabled the me
I, to "a out during the summer and ear
money. Half the men in this colon
Went out and brought back Slll,Vo
which they had earned, and this none
al thev gave to the commune All the
20 goods are bought at wholesale in larg
e quantities.
es As order for 5000 pairs Of overall
I'D ar Ave err loads Of sugar causes
y comment and when they buy farm m'
IS cblnery they get harrows and pioW
by the hundred
From early morning, when the Y
lage is reused by the singing OF enc
which patrols the street until eve
: ing. when tile same choir sings them
sleep. the villagers ind their work
common very agreeable 70 them
Their working day ~ from ocio'
/. in the morning until S O'Clock IN y
IA evening. B.t this Is divided lhto
ny fashion peculiar to themselves "
ma. three shifts of Eve hours eaeh. q
shift Of men aud horses goes y Wolh
.E / o'clock. quitting az 10 o'clock wh
- they are relieved by the second shl
IS. which works until 3 O'Clock when Il
No are relieved lis the third shift VIM
3 o. works until o'clock. The heavy .
real liot,t shifts are taken by the shifts
use men On alternate days