Richmond Times-Dispatch · Richmond, Virginia · 8 January 1911

CP-1911-002

Farms of Palestine

Farms of Palestine—How They Raise Stock and Grain in Land of Milk and Honey—Among Shepherds and Sheepfolds

By Frank G. Carpenter

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Transcribed from the clipping

“Zammarin, Mount Carmel, Palestine. I give you to-day some bits of Palestine out of doors. Within the past few weeks I have kept away from the cities and towns, and have watched the shepherds and farmers. I have seen the real Palestine, with the same sky, the same rocks and hills and the same carpet of wild flowers that were here in the days of our Lord.

I have talked with the farmers in the fields, have ridden side by side with the modern Balaam as he climbed the hills on his ass, and have even put my hand to the plows, such as were used in the times of the Scriptures, and with a goad have pricked on the bullocks and donkeys as they turned up the sod.

The Land of the Farmer. The Palestine of the Bible was a land of the farmer. The children of Israel and their leaders were reared or worked on the farm…”

Context added by this archive

A syndicated American correspondent spends a few weeks away from the cities and writes down what the people of Palestine do for a living: plowing, threshing, shearing, keeping sheep in folds, gathering tares out of the wheat. Four photographs run with it here.

The subheads across the page are The Land of the Farmer, The Sheep of the Holy Land, Among the Shepherds, In the Sheepfolds, Camels and Donkeys, A Land of Milk and Honey, How They Plow, On the Farms, Taxed by the Mohammedans, In a Jewish Colony and A Furnace Town in the Holy Land — so the piece distinguishes the population that was farming the country from the colonies being planted in it, and gives most of its space to the first.

The same column ran in Birmingham the same morning as a single narrow column with no pictures (CP-1911-001).

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• The Farms Of PalestineBirmingham Age-HeraldBirmingham, Alabama8 January 1911CP-1911-001

Their text and this one are nearly identical. Found by comparing transcriptions, not by reading them side by side, so this establishes that the text overlaps and not that these papers ran the same dispatch. How this was done.