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LECTURE ON EGYPT.
pletion, which proved beyond doubt the practicability
of the work, and its value in largely increasing the
revenue of Egypt at a comparatively small cost. For
the sum of about £1,500,000, the Nile floods would be
regulated, pumping dispensed with, serious damage to
crops rendered impossible, and about 000,000 additional
acres of land brought under cultivation. The design
was approved, and its execution would certainly have
produced a clear profit of ■more than £1,000,000 a year,
but unfortunately some delay took place, and now finan-
cial difficulties have postponed it sine die.
Crops. Irrigation naturally leads to farming and crops,
and it will interest farmers present, and all who are
interested in land—and who is not ?—to know what
crops are grown in Egypt, and how the operations are
carried on.
The crops grown in Egypt are Dhoura, Indian corn,
wheat, beans, barley, rice, lentils, lupins, chickpeas,
sugar-cane, tobacco, cotton, flax, hemp, indigo, saffron,
berseem or clover, roses, water melons, and many other
things. These crops include the most valuable products
of the temperate and sub-tropical zones, but the natural
advantages of Egypt are not measured solely by the
variety and value of the crops. The fertilising mud of
the Nile is deposited on the land during the period of
inundation, and manure is thus rendered unnecessary
for the ordinary native crops. The sun again is a con-
stant friend to fellahin and farmer, and indeed the only
drawback to which the latter are exposed is one which
pletion, which proved beyond doubt the practicability
of the work, and its value in largely increasing the
revenue of Egypt at a comparatively small cost. For
the sum of about £1,500,000, the Nile floods would be
regulated, pumping dispensed with, serious damage to
crops rendered impossible, and about 000,000 additional
acres of land brought under cultivation. The design
was approved, and its execution would certainly have
produced a clear profit of ■more than £1,000,000 a year,
but unfortunately some delay took place, and now finan-
cial difficulties have postponed it sine die.
Crops. Irrigation naturally leads to farming and crops,
and it will interest farmers present, and all who are
interested in land—and who is not ?—to know what
crops are grown in Egypt, and how the operations are
carried on.
The crops grown in Egypt are Dhoura, Indian corn,
wheat, beans, barley, rice, lentils, lupins, chickpeas,
sugar-cane, tobacco, cotton, flax, hemp, indigo, saffron,
berseem or clover, roses, water melons, and many other
things. These crops include the most valuable products
of the temperate and sub-tropical zones, but the natural
advantages of Egypt are not measured solely by the
variety and value of the crops. The fertilising mud of
the Nile is deposited on the land during the period of
inundation, and manure is thus rendered unnecessary
for the ordinary native crops. The sun again is a con-
stant friend to fellahin and farmer, and indeed the only
drawback to which the latter are exposed is one which