Show TURE IS i BETTER BETTERIN J JN SICILY SICIL VI Conditions Favorable for Abundant Harvest Is Report ll DI Dispatch atch I ROME nO Italy June Juno 9 A Agricultural con conditions In a large part o of Sicily have in the past been in such a backward backward back back- ward and unsatisfactory state that news s of oC a n. prospect of better things Is e especially Interesting The Island has suffered from a s system of absentee I landlords and previous to the attain 1 mont ment of or Italian unit unity from Crom a success I s slon lon of oC more moie or Ic less s bad ad governments o This latter circumstance had probably probably proba- proba bly lily a good gooI deal feal to do in with ith the growth I of oC the time famous secret society If Ir It could cOUiI properly bo lIo called a society the time Mafia Mafia Ma Ma- laCia la- la I fia Cia and with the custom among the Inhabitants of or taking the law lute their own on hands In cases In irm which they considered themselves wronged so that not so long IonS ago an almost I I medieval al state of things prevailed In I some sonic parts purls of oC the island and an Rn escort I of oC when hen visiting the vil villages il lagos lag In certain districts might VII VII-I not have come amiss A great deal has been lIeen spoken and I written during tho the war of ot tho the need of ot Improving agricultural methods method in I southern Italy and the time islands and the minister for agriculture ha has recently 10 re- centi visited the tho seven provinces of oC Sicily in person and has conferred with prefects protects deputies presidents of agricultural associations and people connected with work on the time land In order to get an arm Impression at first firsthand firsthand firsthand hand of ot the needs and the wishes of tho the Inhabitants He lIe knew Sicily before his visit he stated In an Interview view on the subject of his Journey which has appeared In lii tho the Corriere della deJ Sera I He lie Ie felt that everything e possible had been done toward corn growing considerIng consider consider- ing lug the shortage of labor and of plowIng plowIng plowing plow- plow Ing facilities which liar bar been worse In Sicily than elsewhere and he lie was hopeful hopeful hope hope- ful of an abundant harvest The lack of f workers on the land on some of ot tho time I ing in tao interior of ot the 1 Island land and anil on the plains of Catania and Terranova Terranova Terranova Ter- Ter ranova had been v very r serious partly because the distance at which tho he workers were obliged to live II from the fields prevented the women from flom giving In ing a portion of their theil time to agricultural 1 tural work as had been tho the case In I other parts with excellent results and had made the help of the children and I elderly men also Impossible lIe He saw the necessity for or sending a greater reater proportion of oC time the men freed from the time arm army for agricultural work to Sicily In preference to other othel districts Better Better Bet Bet- ter Irrigation was another prime necessity and It was an essential point that what the government o did In this matter should be c co with private enterprise Signor Signer stated slated that ho was certain that If It irrigation works and other practical reforms were carried out in conformity with the time splendid example that had been een set in Lom- Lom hardy better results than anyone ex expected expected ex- ex would be attained The SicilIan Sicil Sicil- ians Ian had shown themselves both hoth In their own country and In others particularly par par- ready to a adapt apt themselves to toa toa toa a more Intensive s system stem of culture such districts as those o of Messina Syracuse the lower of ot Etna and the neigh neighborhood of oC Marsala and Trapani showed what fine fino work tho the Sicilian peasants could do Those who considered the inhabitant as rough and uncultured made a a. great reat mistake e he had seen in tho the island the most modern and developed spirit of oC association and cooperation and by these means menns It had been lIeen found possible to cultivate some somo o of the big iS' iS estates which had for or a time been almost abandoned The government would take all aU these things into consideration consideration con con- Signor said Eald In order to pass legislation which should meet the special needs of oC tho the case and amid bring out all the time po possibilities of the I Irland and Its inhabitants |