10 THE GOSPEL AND THE PLOW 



quietness. In the brick kilns we watched production on 

 a large scale and the specialization of process. 



We crossed the Jumna river in order to visit the Naini 

 Central Jail which has accommodation for three thou- 

 sand prisoners. For sixteen years the Superintendant 

 of this jail was the late Colonel E. Hudson, I.M.S., a 

 British Military Medical officer. Colonel Hudson was a 

 genius. He tried to manage the jail so that no man who 

 entered should return to his ordinary life without having 

 learned something which would be of advantage to him 

 if he wished to become a decent citizen. The gardens 

 and the field crops were the best I have ever seen. His 

 field cabbages, crop after crop, weighed from forty to 

 sixty pounds each. His cauliflowers, stripped of all 

 leaves and stalk, till only the beautiful snowy, white 

 head remained, turned the scale at from fifteen to twenty 

 pounds. His silage crops of sorghum or millet grew to a 

 height of from seventeen to eighteen feet, and weighed 

 twenty-five to thirty tons of green fodder to the acre. 

 Dean Alfred Vivian of the College of Agriculture, Ohio 

 State University, Columbus, Ohio, on his journey round 

 the world, rated the jail silage A No. 1. Colonel Hud- 

 son invented a coal-burning stove for cooking the thin, 

 flat, unleavened cakes of India, known as chappatties. 

 This stove saved the jail twenty thousand rupees a year 

 in fuel and the daily labor of fifty cooks. In the days 

 when the kitchens had been dependent upon wood for 

 fuel, it had been almost impossible to obtain dry wood 

 in the rainy season with which to cook the food. As a 

 result of damp wood and improperly cooked food, an 

 outbreak of cholera and dysentery had accompanied 

 the annual rainy season. This coal stove alone had been 

 the means of saving the lives of hundreds of prisoners. 



