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TRAINING MEN FOR
COUNTRY LIFE
What Kuitpo Is Doing
Of the 500 men who have been
trained at the Kuitpo Industrial
Colony during the past four years the
large majority have found permanent
work in the country. Many of the
men when they enter the colony have
had no experience of farm work, ana
in some cases their health is co poor
on account of under-nourishment that
for the first few weeks it is neces
sary to put them on to very light work.
The bracing, atmosphere of the hills,
regular and substantial meals, and
t:ie pioneering nature of the colony,
however, invariably work wondere in
their physique, and in a short time
even the weakest are able to undertake
the heaviest work.
One of the objects of the colony is
to inculcate a sincere love of the coun
try, and how far that object has been
achieved may be gauged from the fact
that very few of the colonists who
have come from the city ever express
a desire to return to sedentary occu
pations. The men are given a com
prehensive training in mixed farming,
including ploughing, eiieep raising,
wood cutting, gardening, and the care
of poultry, pigs, and dairy stock. At
the end of three months they are gene
rally fitted to take a position on a
farm. It frequently happens that
an employer, having engaged one man
from the colony, applies for another
??Kuitpo man."
An appeal is now being made on be
half of the colony to extend its scope
by adding a third camp, with accom
modation for 35 men.
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