The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-06

lion dollars worth per annum. Some or [ these are sent to England. and others to Austria and Germany. The onions are packed in bags of a hundredweight each.
 As to tobacco, Egypt is both an eX- porter and importer Egyptian cigarettes are sold all over the world. but Egypt dues not raise the tobacco of which they are made The cultivation of tobacco has been forbidden by law since 1890, and all i the tobacco used Is imported from Tur- key, Greece and Bosnia. About four nfths of it comes from Turkey. The to- tai imports amount 10 about SS,0O0O00 a year. and 1t might pay our tobacco trust to see if our best Virginia weed could not displace that of Turkey.
 Hen Eggs by Millions.
 Secretary Wilson should investigate tho chicken industry of Egypt These people have been famous egg producers since the time of the Pyramids, and the help ful hen is stlll an important part of their stock It brings in hundreds of thous- ands of dollars a year, and it's eggs form one of the items of the national exports. During the past twelve months enough i eggs have been shipped across the Medl- terranean to England and other parts of Europe to have given one to every man,
 woman and child in the United States. The amount was in the neighborhood of 100,000000 and the most of them went to Great Britain.
 The Egyptians have an excellent climate for fowl raising. and they had ineubating establishments long before artificial egg { matching was known to the rest of the world. There is hatchery near the Py
 ramids where the farmers trade fresh eggs for young chicks at two eggs per i chick. and there is another. farther down the Nile valley which produces a half million little chickens every season. It is estimated that>the oven crop of chick ems amounts to thirty or forty millions per annnm, that number of fowls heinz sold by the owners when the baby chicks are about able to walk
 The most of our incubators are of met al. and many are kept warm by coal oil lamps. The incuba tors here are one story buildings made of sun dried bricks. They contain ovens which are fired during the matching seasons. The eggs are laid upon cut straw in racks near the oven and the | firing is so carefully done that the tenn perature is kept just right from week to week. The heat is not gauged by the thermometer. but by the judgment and experience of the man who runs the es- tabishment. A fire is started eight or ten days before the eggs are put in, and from that time on it is not allowed to go out until the matching season is over. The eggs are turned four times a day while hatching Such establishments are cheap | lV built. and they are so arranged that it costs almost nothing to run them. One
 which will hatch two hundred thousand 1 chickens a year can be built for less than ! fifty dollars. and al experienced man can 1 be hired to run the machine, tend the fires turn the eggs and sell the chickens l for about a dollar and half per day. What Egypt Buys.
 Egypt buys almost everything under the l sun. Her imports amount to more than l one hundred million dollars every year, and a large part of this money is spent , for goods which are speciality in the 1 United States. She buys thirteen million 1 dollars worth of cereals, vegetables and 1 flour, and of this, almost three million i dollars worth come from Great Britian. | three million and half dollars worth from France and Algiers, one million dol ! lars worth from Italy. and four million
 dollars worth from Turkey. Of the whole
 just about four hundred thousand dollars l worth comes from the United States, and
 that, notwithstanding we produce the best
 flour in the world and have Indian corr
 better than that which forms a large par
 of the food of the Nile valley.
 The day of the pump and the windmill
 has reached the Nile valley, but so far
 the most of the pumping machinery i' | imported from Europe. All the large land
 owners are now using steam pumps
 There are many estates run by syndi- i eates which are irrigated by this means 1 and there are men who are buying DOT table engines and pumps and hiring theu
 out to the smaller farmers in much the same way that thrashing machines ar'
 used in the United States and Canada ! Quite a number of American windmills
 are already installed, and almost tho