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India the things of which she stands so sorely in need. 

 This is the one sure way to rid India of the ever present 

 nightmare, as well as the reality, of famine, and from 

 the missionary standpoint the one sure way to get the 

 self-supporting, self-propagating, self-governing church. 

 Better farming for India means the introduction of 

 modern machinery adapted to Indian conditions. The 

 Indian farmer has gone about as far as any one can go 

 with implements made of bamboo tied together with weak 

 string; to get bigger crops he must have better tools. 

 The present tools and implements do not call out from 

 the user any large degree of intelligence. It is for this 

 reason that mission farms using Indian tools and meth- 

 ods have not made any substantial progress. But the 

 Indian boy who learns to care for a tractor, or a thresh- 

 ing machine, or a silage cutter, knows he has learned 

 something that calls for more brains and effort. Modern 

 machinery challenges the Indian farmer boy just as it 

 has the American farmer boy. 



