-wages averaging from ten to er hand the agricultural impletive character; the plow used is 1 upon monuments thousands of eely and easily worked after the stant attention throughout the

neat, barley, beans, maize, sugarose grown in summer are cotton, d clover. During the floods the cultivated. The winter crops are common rotation is a first year of e, wheat, and clover, and a third otton is too exhausting to the 1 be grown every second year if present practice is to grow it same thing, not more than one in each year. It is by far the acre being worth from $75 to wheat, and $20 per acre for fodr Egypt, wheat, flax, and beans sâkiyehs and shadoofs, millet, summer. The food of the counurse does not appear in this rel of forage, and a great variety

In Lower Egypt the soil yields f Egypt, seven crops in eight years. In 1888 the "double cultivation " exports amounted to £10,418,212, or

acres.

an area of 89,500,000 acres not m public works. The total area 00,000 acres. Of the population

lencies it is estimated that at least m land irrigated by village and servoir system is of enormous exsland of Ceylon alone over 5,000 eported. In the province of Myeported. The number, large and thousands. The average duty of cres, according to locality. The fford a vast reserve against the sequence of the equatorial posient of the country and the differmate produce considerable variety

most unnecessary, but the decrease th of the Punjab, near the footes; 30 miles distant it is but 31 miles, 15 at 100 miles, and 6 inches the Sind the average rain-fall will thern portions of the peninsula it

as recent date as desirable, will an irrigation system :