The Red Cross : in peace and war . dvalue as chicks were hatched. While medical work was going on otherforms of relief were also in progress. A supply of tools had beenordered from Harpoot, directly upon our arrival, for blacksmiths, car-penters, tinkers, masons, stone workers, etc. The wereset to work making sickles for cutting grass and reaping grain; .shovels,plows and other implements for farmers. Others were put at makingspinning-wheels for the destitute women, who with these could earntheir own living; others made weaving looms. Out of the twelve hun-dred hand looms formerly
The Red Cross : in peace and war . dvalue as chicks were hatched. While medical work was going on otherforms of relief were also in progress. A supply of tools had beenordered from Harpoot, directly upon our arrival, for blacksmiths, car-penters, tinkers, masons, stone workers, etc. The wereset to work making sickles for cutting grass and reaping grain; .shovels,plows and other implements for farmers. Others were put at makingspinning-wheels for the destitute women, who with these could earntheir own living; others made weaving looms. Out of the twelve hun-dred hand looms formerly in the city it was said only forty was the chief manufacturing centre for native cotton cloth,and if a man had a loom which would cost three medjidieh (about$) he could earn his own familys living. FielO lud garden seedswere bought in quantity and distributed. 340 THE RKD CROSS. For the villages which had no cattle we gave oxen for plowing thefields. Sometimes with the oxen, cows were given, with instructionc. SOME METHODS OF WORK. that in this stress of need the cows should be made to work with theoxen, even while they were giving milk for the family. Thus they
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