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Show work has cost already 10. 000. 90 lire, I aad further drainage and Irrigation I projects will cost as much again. in the Poteeine-Han Giorgio district 1 m.000 acres of swsmpy malarious land hss been converted Into some of the most fertile grain fielde ef Italy. ITALY PROGRESSES IN j LAND RECLAMATION! HOMR, Oet. 1,. Pursuing a poller of land reel rrat ton the government, w.trktna; with private aaaortntinna. haa hmuaht under culllvatloa uhhi acrea of land which otherwise would ba virtually vir-tually Worth .eea. In rha rerrara and alodeaa districts a dralitac baaia cover ma over 24,eof acrea has ben Completeo. and lt H0 nilea of ducbea have bean built. Tbia |