The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-07-21

NA'cass III attempts We nave made /
was the ntroductio OF the American
piow- The Indian piows are OF wood
ana are little more than forked
sticks, that cut a furrow OF only two
or three inches. We imported some
piows. but had great troubie in per
sudding the Indians to yoke their
oxen 10 them. The plows are yoked
10 the horns OF the oxen and the oxen
push the plow-tonsue along with their
headS- We showed them that We
could pillow twice as deep with our
pIoW as they could with theirs, and
when our crops rise high above theirs
| Am sure we shall have no further
trouble"
III talking about the suparstitions
OF the Indians. Mr.. Wenbure said that
they believe in ~witchcraft and that
death Is usually ~occasioned by some
one bewitching them. When a per
son dies his relatives and friends are
anxious that the witches should not
pursue the soul Of the man after
death. Not long & a man died on
the farm. and his family came to the
overseer and asked him to take a
piece OF paper with a cross on the
top and to write below that: Il have
died because | am bewitched by my
enemies. and l here pray to the Lord
that | may be free from them in the
future" This sheet of paper was put
into the hand OF the dead man nd
was buried with him.
In the same connection Mr.. Wen
burg says that the Indians are very
quiet as an ordinary thing. but they
may become enraged. and that when
they fight they grow savage. AT such
times q man may even kill and eat his
victim. The Indian Overseer now on
the farm belonged to a family who
killed and ate a man in that way.
They then threw his bones into the
lake. This was discovered, and. as a
punishment. the neighbers took away
the and that belonged to them.
During my stay at Cerro de Pasco
| learned of a similar industrial
movement that is going on among the
Indians OF Peru. The heads of this
work are interCenominatiOnal. and
they come chiefly from Great Britain
and Canada. They have a missile n
station at Arequipa and a large indus
trial farm not far from CuZcO. he
farm formerly belonged to the Jesuits.
but some time after they were driven
out of the country it was bought by
this organization. 1t is Of vast extent,
consisting Of something like 60, 900
acres Of good land on the plains and
running from them high up the
slopes Of the mountains and includ-
: ing the valleys AS in the
case of the farm on Lake Titicaca the
Indians went with this land. They
had their own little holdings scatter
ed over it. and owned their OwI
foCkS. working d Dart of each week
, for the farmer. The foreigners have
established schools on the estate. an(
are introducing our grains and graSse'
and new methods Of farming. l an
> told that the Indians are learning t,
= pillow. They use one-handled ploWs o
A Yoaricap mako and now Clllfiyaf
their land in deep and straight fur
= rows, a thing they did not do in tn
= past. The foreigners have brought il
new crops. Among other things the,
are experimenting with is the Iris
potato, Of which they are raising a
much as 800 bushels per acre.
I talked with Mrs. Austin. a fin
:. Canadian woman. the wife of one o
the missionary farm Sh
tells me that the Indian boys ar
: very quick to learn and showed me
= bright little fellow, belonging to tn
a farm. who spoke Spanish. At tn
- same time. she brought out some ear
= Of corn about a foot long with grain
as big as lima beans, and told m
>, that it had been raised on the farm
. I a the boy hold up the ears c
~ maize and photographed them. Mr..
e Austin says the mission has alread
l. proved that the Indians can be civil
4. lied and that all they need to &c
l. along in the world is education an
~ freedom from alcohol. This missio
70 is doing o only work of an indus
y trial order among the Indians, bl
IN also evangelical and even gosp,
le work among the Peruvians. 1t ha
Us a thriving school at Cuzco, wher
SO the pupils are taught Spanish: and
IS has trained nurses who serve anon
lie all classes of people.
ct In sailing down the west coast
came from Lima to MOllendO. wit
ne Bishop Homer C. StuntZ. who ha
the general supervision Of the Meth
ey odist E,piscopaI missions Of Sou
at America with his headquarters
TIC Buenos Aires. He tells me that thel
ed are six North American ProtestaI
IS missionary boards on this cOntinen
,ir These are the Methodist EpiScopa