Mission Farm School and Building Plans in Rhodesia
By W. H. Anderson
MISSION FARM, BULUWAYO.—Our school now has a daily attendance of over sixty. It keeps us quite busy. We are planning to spend some time in building a new church and repairing our dwelling houses. These were built five years ago, and have grass roofs. The white ants have worked into one of the roofs until it leaks badly; so we propose to replace it with iron roofing. We have lived on dirt floors ever since we came to this place. We are now planning to replace them with cement. We do this because we believe that the work demands a new church, and the health of the workers demands houses that do not leak. Just now we are busy gathering crops. We have raised about seven hundred pounds of peanuts, twenty bushels of meolies (Indian corn), and one ton of nyonti (a native grain used in porridge), also about fifty bags (120 pounds per bag) of sweet potatoes. All this will be consumed by ourselves and the school family. There is a good crop of grain this year, and prices are lower than usual. Business has been at a standstill for over two years, on account of the war. We ought to open the work in Buluwayo and in the kingdom of Khama at once. I do hope that the schools in America may soon be turning out missionaries. I am glad to know that they are working to that end.