This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ... extremely embarrassed if their neighbors saw the potato used as a food. It was eaten on the sly. They were always careful, if any one entered during a meal, to cover the dish, so that it might not be known." Giving this cultivation of the potato his personal care, he soon saw the people exporting from their successful ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ... extremely embarrassed if their neighbors saw the potato used as a food. It was eaten on the sly. They were always careful, if any one entered during a meal, to cover the dish, so that it might not be known." Giving this cultivation of the potato his personal care, he soon saw the people exporting from their successful crop to the people in the valleys. New grasses also were procured. Lectures were given upon the value of fertilizers, showing the people how to collect fertilizing material and how to apply it; how to drain their meadows, how to protect them from the washings of mountain torrents, and how thus to prevent the wasting of their lands. Much waste land was in this way brought into use and enclosed. In his appeal to the villages for the irrigation of their fields, which came to be done with thoroughness and great advantage, he makes his scheme a religious duty. "I beg all those who do not contribute with all their ability and influence to make the needful arrangements for a just and brotherly system of watering the meadows, to consider that the love of God and of one's neighbor is the sum of all the commandments." Many of their grass-lands, for lack of irrigation, were cultivated to so little purpose that it is said the wife could carry home in her apron all the hay her husband could mow in half a day. He urged them to put aside their rude agricultural implements, himself buying better and more modern ones from Strasburg, to be paid for by the people on instalments. Never was there a more practical utilitarian in missions. Nothing escaped his indefatigable attention. Nothing was beneath it. His ardor and enthusiasm were only surpassed by the patience and prudence which he used in inducing his parishioners to adopt his suggestions. No...
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