Show ONETIME ONE 1 NIE TIME JUNGLE PASTURES pastured CATTLE now furnishes beef and milk for 1 people in tho canal ione zone DONE BY DITCH DIGGERS BIGGERS men who are now running canal at time alm when its ita importance in win ning war Is vital and imperative imperative christobal C Z it safely be anid that nowhere now hero else in tho the world except in lie caad zone could have developed a great pasturage area out of primeval jungle anti put tile lie cattle on it to support n population of I 1 W people poo V to with beef call milk 1 in a years time but tills this la Is what lart tile men inon who ing lie enn bimal allind lind iad and it running bhend of schedule quie time have hare done ava carh rs ahrent of famine has no terrors for them it Is nho also literally true that Indus industrial feat has been accomplished becom by tile the real ditch diggers t alie le wen 1111 11 who wore were tle the rank and tile ofa of a few years ago but who are now inow run ning tile the canal tit at n thus when m it its s importance in the war la Is so vital and imperative tile gunpowder material for tho the nilles katsea through tho the canal and it may win ahe lie war before the prent great atmospheric tit nl plants get into operation in the united states economical independence to make the force of ment men engaged in tho the operation and do de bellso of tho file canal economically independent of outside sources of supply to 0 o tile ali greatest possible hlo extent has hag become tile th flad policy here and tile tho progress of the war dally daily dindl cate batea st its wisdom there are hundreds of thousands uit idle idla acres near tile lie canal and hundreds hun dreda of oc thousands of idle or comparatively idle men in adjoining coun countries trieR and the tha use of both ileese lieal unemployed assets Is self evident ay iy Y desirable pineapples and gagar front from constantly plies pais tile tho canal when cano and pines loth both grow frely freely anti and lux heppl oranges tire anre lm ported from california and florida even fish from H europe sometimes when va parnas abound in excellent red snapper and spanish mackerel it iq it a curious comment on industry alint tills this situation should have existed here hera I 1 W I 1 i tor for years yearn but at last it itla la Is b eing being remedied to whom credit la Is due the 71 luan iba n active agent in this work la Is tife tho thief quartermaster 0 of f the canal R K morris who Is on gnp of the boys who grew up tip on the canal ho he began as a clerk nt at a little over twenty years of age some borne 14 years ago and hns has now become the hoover of the me zone and perhaps the biggest agriculturist in antin almerice mr bir morris has taken up tip the work with intelligent enthusiasm studied it from ninny angles got a corps of practical experts and Is bidding fair to solve some of the most arn important octant and difficult problems that lime have ever con frontel Tron fron ted teI tropical pioneers lie ile Is in line to to do with tropical tropic til agriculture what general gorgas did with tropical to tion tho the time la Is very propitious and afie the results will be well worth watching vat ching |