Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1915 — Life Jobs on a Farm. [ARTICLE]

Life Jobs on a Farm.

A farm for the benefit of “silver” or unskilled workmen thrown out of employment by the completion of the Panama canal has been established by the government on the Canal son*. There are now about one hundred men on this farm, all of whom are earning a comfortable living for themselves. Nearly all these farmers are crippled, some having lost an arm or a leg or having been incapacitated in some other way for hard work. The farm grows bananas,' oranges, cocoanuta and other tropical products and Is stocked with cows, chickens, ducks and pigs. It is managed by the medical corps of the United States army. Each workman is to have a life job on the farm.