Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1919-12-19
AGRICULTURE TO
AID MISSIONARY
LAND WOULD NOT sRlNG EIGHT
CENTS AN AcRE-NoW
VALUABLE.
IMPROVED COTTON OUTPUT
Sturdy Variety Of Cotton Produces
Four Bales Where Only One
Produced by Natives.
christisnizing india by Solving Farm
PROBLEMS.

| ~N'Sl"~s
Sam Higgin6ottOm ~ back from In.
dia on years fufi0ugh. The noted
missionary arrived only few days
ago aud Is already on the Job In this
country getting himself and other peO-
pie ready SO that he can return to his
charge at the mission farm. EwiaS
Christian College. AtlAhabad, tndia, a
year frOm now with very good chance
Of pushing his great work still further
along the road to success.
iggthbOttom-he SHES at the appel
HAITIAN Of professor or other hOn0raey
title--ts Wetshnun by birth, aud an
American by education. with terms ut
Amherst, Princeton, and Ohio State
University to establish his claim TO
the latter distinction He Is also a
missionary Of the Presbyterian For.
eigh Beard His work in India ias
been OF the grrH test Importance, for 1t
has proved to India and to the world
that one of the ways to reach the
heart aud soul OF that great country
is by helping it in the solution OF Ito
most difficult problem, problem not
only economic bat spiritual aud social
az weil-~h9w 20 make agriculture
which 3 The mHinstRy Of the country.
more sure and more easy for the "a.
habitInts.
Their Daily Bread.
Before several New York cOugrega-
tons last Sunday. HgginbOtt0m told
Of his attempts to make the churches
OF India Se'f-suppOrtiug. he said:
We discovered that we must supple
ment our teaching in that land OF
famine TO extend beyond the recitinR
of the Lords prayer in which occurs
the petition Give us this day our
daily bread" When we say that the
natives by their primitive methods Of
farming were only getting six or eight
bushels Of wheat and only one bale Of
poor grade cotton an acre we decided
that the permanent success Of our mis- |
projects in that country de-
pendeh upon our ability IN helping the
Lord answer the daily bread prayee
OF the people. 1'his we have 10 a
done but not to the extent
That some OF my friends have report. |
I'd SOme OF these have come to our |
demonstration farm and looked at the
htngs with rOse-cOlOred glasses and |
reported az accomplished the things
We hoped to accomplish"
=, Mfr. Higginbottem said that in se-
Getting farm for demonstration pUr-
'Oses he psrposeiy picked land Tor
which the natives would mt hay rental |
u eight cent per acre per year. 81
he use of scientific farming methods
nd equipment he demonstrated that
wenty bushels OF wheat could be rails
q on that land: where native farmers
n better Iaud' were raising a crop Of
My six to eight bushels.
improved Cotton Output.
BY Introducing a sturdy yarjptr Of
otton ne has been able to show the
lrmers how to get four bnieS Of cotton
er acre whicA has market value Oe
ouble that OF the Old variety at which
'e Sarmers could get only one bate
er acre. Hr IL now WORKING on tue
'obtem Of substituting some vsIuab!e
'0p to be grown on the land which
'rmeriy was used to produce opium.
wv prohibited by the government.
Q said tint he expected to be able
demonstrate that sugar cane or
'me other yatuahie produce could
! rhjsed on this land.
While in this country ne will also
udy the water systems and deem
'lling machinery so that the drinking
alter supply OF India may be increas-
and conserved One attempt TO gee
ep drilling machinery during the war
suited In its being Communicated by
e government to help win the war.
he. rajah who paid for It was enthu-
lSttc in his support OF the British
yernment and expressed his pleas.
G that the machinery was used in
at way,
In all this program Of practical mis-
mary work the gospel OF Christ Ia
sularly preached and Bible classes
3. conducted for all the students