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Show ITALIANS RECLAIM MUCH WASTE LAND B RQME, Oct. 14. Pursuing a policy H of land reclamation the government. H working with private associations, has brought under cultivation 60O.OO0 H acrea of land which otherwise would H be virtually worthless. In the Ferrara and Modena districts H a drainage baain cover over '.'00,000 H acres has been completed, and 160,000 H miles of ditches have bn built. This H work has coat already 30.000.oon lire. H nd further drainage and irrigation H projects will cost as much again. H In the Polealne-Sun Giorgio district 125.000 acrea of swamp.v malarious 'nd has been sOnverted into some of H the moat fertile grain fields of IiaJy |