Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1918 — RED CROSS AIDS FARMING IN ITALY [ARTICLE]

RED CROSS AIDS FARMING IN ITALY

Through efforts of the American Red Cross scientific farming is now being taught the younger generation of Italy, thus eliminating, considerable waste arid replacing old-fashioned Implements with modern American-made machinery. Schools of agriculture have been established, and the Department of Civil Affairs of the American, Red Cross, co-operating with a similar Italian organization, known as the “Comitato per gli Orfanl de Constadinl Mortl In Guerra,” has opened a school of farming, conducted by Salesian Fathers, In fields jusC outside the Porta Furba, one of the historic-gateways of Rome. The boys of the school, all orphans of peasant soldiers, are given training in scientific and practice’ farming, the object being to strengthen their attachment to the soil, also to convert them into good and intelligent farmers. Lectures and classroom instruction are accompanied by field work with modern tools under the direct supervision of the younger Fathers of the institution, who work side by side with the boys in the fields, teaching and demonstrating.