Show MIDER ZEE LE IS TOPIC ON HOLLAND FAli editors tors note tills this is the ninth in a series of arti articles c les by miss aliss josephine daines dailies on her trip last summer to tb the netherlands er duider zee works the duider zee is no more the duider zee to the dutchman why did you change the name I 1 asked a dutchman the duider zee is much more romantic sounding that than the lisl insl meer pronounced icel we like the old duider zee lie he answered but were very proud of our lisl lake you see the dutchman did something that had never been done before in history they cut off a piece of the ocean and made a fresh water lake of it now they are draining sections of it and makind land and the Dutch nian worked with large crews and much equipment for over li 15 i years to complete the af slut dyk this great dyke or dam as we may call it is 1 HI 11 miles long and c closes uses out the salt sea from the inland bottle shaped sea that we call the duider zee in fact af the name of the dyke means closing out the dyke itself would k dwarf any of out our jams dams around here they made it by first laying it a mattress of brush in the sea which they weighed down with stones and then added more tones to it the rest of it is built with soil dredged from the sea along tile the water level on rither either side there are stones to make it very strong height of the dyke was about 20 or 25 feet above the summer level of the north sea but why nil all this work As was fr frequently e explained to me holland hole is a little country with alry almost lost ten million mouths to feed there ire are 7 0 U O people per pei sq square U are mile they do dont n t have enough 1 land and by building this great dyke they have made the duider zee fresh water and therefore call it a lake the water that flows into it front from the rivers and canals is pumped into the ocean by great pumping stations in ili the dyke careful analysis have been made of the old duider zee they know the depth and what the soil is like all over the bottom of this lake and from it in ili certain places they are building moie dykes around different dit ferent areas arid and draining all the water out and then they build tile the soil up and farm at the bottom of this sea it is all very hard ti picture without really seeing it and even when seeing it its such a great work it still takes time to understand about it since the dyke was completed in 1932 over HK acres of land have been made into farm land their plans and work are by no means complete before t hey dinisi t here hel e will be MX acres of farm land fund tit at the bottom of the zee ee with the water held 0 off ff th thac land by dykes its no wonder the dutchman Dutch mai adopted the saying god created lie he wor world I 1 d but the dutchman dutcha a n made I 1 holland lo lland 11 I 1 |