Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1920-01-01
TO
AID MISSIONARY
LAND WOULD NOT BRING EIGHT
CENTS AN AcRE--NoW
VALUABLE.
IMPROVED COTTON OUTPUT
sturdy Variety q Cotton preducSs
Four Rales Where Only One
Produced by Natives.
chrlstlanizing India by Solving Farm
Problems.

chrlstlanizing India by Solving Farm
Problems
sam HggnbotIom is back from m
dia on years furlough. The noted
missionary arrived only a few days
ago and is already on the JOB In tds
country getting himself aud other PEE
pie ready 80 that he can return to his
charge at the mission farm, Ewing
Christian College, Allahsbad, noia, Q
year from now with very good chssce
of pushing his great work sth fsFtA~
along the road TO success.
Higginbottom7-he SHES at the appel"
lation OF professor or other honorary
tltle--ls a Welshman By birth, and an
American by education, with terms %
Amherst, Princeton, and Ohio SAats
University TO establish his claim 10
the latter distinction. He is also .
missionary of the Presbyterian For
eign Board. His work in India has
been OF the greatest Importance, Tor It
| has proved to India and 10 the world
that one Of the ways TO reach the
heart and soul of that great couAtry
is BIZ helping il in the solution OF lts
most difficult problem, a problem not
only economic but spiritual aud social
MS well-how TO make agriculture
which is the maiustay of the country,
more sure and more easy for the N
habitantS,
Their Daily Bread.
Before several New York congresa-
lions last Sunday, Higginbottom told
hf his attempts to make the churches
of India self.supporting. He said:
1--WE discovered that we must supple
ment our teaching In that land Of
famine to extend beyond the recitiHl
Of the Lords prayer in which occurs
the petition "Give us this day ou'
daily bread" When we say mat the
natives by their primitive methods d
farming we're only getting six Or eigh1
bushels Of wheat and only one bale q
Door grade cotton al acre We decides
that the permanent success Of our mis-
sionary projects In that country Do
pended upon our ability In helping tn
Lord answer the daily bread" prsye
of the people. This We have 10
measure done but not to the extern
that sons If my friends have repsFs
ed. Some Of these have come to on
demonstration farm and looked at th'
things with rose.c olored glasses an
reported az accomplished tAs thanE
we hoped to accomplish"
. Mr.. Hlgginbottom said that In 81
lecting a farm for demonstration pus
n poses he purposely picked land TO
e which the natives would net pay rsnts
' Of eight cent per acre per year. b
! the use of scientific farming method
and equipment he demonstrated the
twenty bushels Of wheat could Be rais
ed on that land where native farmer
+ on better land were raising q crop
only six to eight bushels
improved Cotton output.
!" BY introducing a sturdy variety Z
/, cotton he has been able to show ii
= farmers how to yet four bales Of cotto
per acre which has a market value
; double that OF the old variety Of whic
e the farmers could get only one bal
n per acre. He Is now working on III
problem of substituting some vsluab
u crop 10 be grown on the land WhiC
d formerly was used to produce opiuI
q now prohibited by the governmen
lie said that he expected 70 he ah
10 demonstrate that sugar cane
,ame other valuable produce couI
~ raised on this land
While in this country h. viii NJ
study the water systems aud de,
!. ..4ling machinery 80 thai the drirkil
water supply Of India may be inc,c'
~ and conserved. One attempt Ia q
,..'ep drilling machinery duriug thr 81;
suited in its being commandcctcn
t,r government to help win The Na
, ae raiah who paid for IL was rnih
s.astic in his support of the irit.
> aatcrnment and expressed his p!r;,
~ hat the machinery was used
at way.
IN al this program Of prac,icai mi
,.aaarr work the gospel of christ
q regularly preached and Bible clas>
y agr conducted for all The SUDDEN