Poor Men Go Farming

The Society for Improving the iv:ition of the Poor announced yesierrtay that in the assignment of lots for farming on Long Island men with families would have the preTerence. Each worker will have all that he cun grow, and can do what he likes with the product of his little farm. The cultivation need not necessarily take all of a man's time, as he can work in the evening and in the morning. Each man is expected to pay back the expense of the tools and seed if he can, bat if he is aot able to do so the committee will consider it a debt of honor. A superintendent and three assistants are giving all the necessary instruction free. The men who are at work now are very anxious to learn, and their first attempts are very gratifying to the committee. A quarter of an acre is given to each man. There are about thirty men now at work. A very good offer has been made to the society by a man who lives in tha northern part of the state and owns several thousand acres of land. He has offered to give 1,500 acres of land to those wishing to start farming there, The land will be givcn in lots of five to ten acres to each family. This donation of land is for those men who have taken lots from the society and ! prove by their industry and anee that they are worthy of such a reward. The society has accepted the proposltion, and expeets that it will induce many of the unemployed in the city to make homes for themselves d the country.