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Show WASTE LAND MADE FERTILE Remarkable Results Have Followed Experiments Only Recently Undertaken in Egypt As an indication of the ultimate outcome out-come in the great delta of Egypt, where 1,500,000 acres of wash salt 'laud awaits development, toward the . urid ol"l!)I2 iibout 800 acres of absolutely absolute-ly vuil'! land at liiala were taken In IV,- , ..i Tim' land was so heavily im-,ol im-,ol . ,i i fr.ii.-salt that for ages noth- ing had grown on it. A scientific system sys-tem of irrigation and drainage was laid out, under direction of Lord Kitchener, Kitch-ener, at a cost of $50 an acre, and it was then handed over to the fellaheen in five-acre plots for cultivation. Last year the land was washed, and a crop of rice was grown, giving a satisfactory satisfac-tory yield. After the rice croa the salt distribution was measured, and the pnrcentage was considerably reduced. re-duced. To the great astonishment of the fellaheen cultivators, a permanent renult had been achieved in one year, which under the ordinary system prevailing pre-vailing in the country would have taken thre or four years to accomplish. accom-plish. Cotton is now, therefore, being satisfactorily grown on a fair proportion propor-tion of this area, and it is expected that it will bring from $75 to $100 an acre. |