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Show DRY FARMING CARRIED ON NEAR JERUSALEM CAIRO, May 26. A report from the government's Arab bureau on the -subject of agriculture in Palestine says: "In the neighborhood of Jerusalem a good deal of scientific dry farming is being be-ing carried on. the ground being kept loose by continual tillage. The Arabs do not use harrows, but the Jewish colonists have introduced the harrow nnd the American "pulverizer" with excellent results. re-sults. The plows chiefly In use in Pal- ! estine are the primitive Arah plow and the German plow used throughout the Jewish and German colonies. British plows are paid to be too heavy and the shape unsuitable. In the orangeries and other plantations American plows are used exclusively and also American zig-Atig zig-Atig harrows.' |