Show I CULTIVATE MOUNT i lN SIDES A mountain o s o terra terraced c from top t tp 9 bottom and haying having the tha appearance of ot an enormous amphitheatre Is ill one n Dr of the curious things things- nto to be be seen back in the moun mountains mountains' of Luzon in In the Philippine Islands A typical example of ot this this' novel method d of ot f converting steep mountain mountainsides mountainsides sides into rIce fields Is 13 Illustrated In the V February number of ot Popular Mechanics ec magazine This section of ot the Island is by S a a a. tribe of ot savages who have resisted all at civilization but who owing owing- to necessity nc ne nc and in spite e of or primitive tools arid and methodS method have become skilled HaYIng Ha practically ll no farm ann lands available but steep mountain Sides Ides the have ma made e these suitable for or orrIce rico rIce culture culture b by elaborate sj stems of orter tex ter racing The terraces terraces' ue are c c connected nn by irrigation ditches taking r from points pot high up in tho the mountains and inthis la in lathis this ay aya a a regular res wat water r supply ly is as assured without which rice farming IS 13 Impossible Im Im- Impossible Im- Im possible wince since the grain requires tho literal literal lit lit- eral f flooding C of ot the land while the young pl plants are ar growing |