Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-08-29


States. At the time, large irrigation canals
built by the government, nberating cutiva-
tors from eternal worry the prospects of
rain. These changes taking place with
startling rapidity. The process is proceeding at
q snails pace slowly that It is hard for for
egners to realize that the transition is going on
However, each year more and more of the Hitter
ate farmers are sending their and daugh-
tiers to school, and each year they show more in
terest in the demonstrations held on the expert
ment farms, and display less opposition to limo
vations In a few districts the advancement is
already quite marked. This is especially true
of certain parts OF the Punjab-the province of
the Five Rivers situated in northwestern India
which are known the Canal colonies. There
several million acres OF land that twenty years
ago was barren waste today have been con-
Verted. thanks to a marvellous irrigation scheme.
into an important grain-producing region spread.
ing the fame of India wheat far and wide in the
world
The very first farm that visited in the col.
ones during recent tour wildly revealed the
transformation of Indian rural conditions In the
courtyard, shaded by a spreading jujube tree,
stood reaping machine In mud shed erected
especially for the purpose of protecting the farm
machinery, wound four chied-steel plows two
OF them made in the United States On the floor
OF the lowroofed verandah the farmers son.
lad of about twelve, at the highest reckoning
clad as Dame Nature had dressed him at birth
but for scanty breech-clout, stood turning the
wheel OF modern fodderchoppere which cut
green chart (milletl in small shreds that fell
about him in a succulent shower
After further travel and investigation among
the cultiyators living round about Lyallpur, the
largest city in the erstwhile waterless wilder.
ness, which now, In the wake of the water car.
rled by the Chenab canal has become paradise
for farmers. l found that the cultivator whose
home had first visited was not whit more
enterprisng than scores Of others in the district
who today are employing time and laborsaving
machinery to do all the work on their land Wher-
ever went found agriculturists galore who
owned their own steel plows harrows cultivators
and improved fodder.choppers Occasionally
would come across a reaper which was the prop.
erty OF progressive individual who proited by
renting 1t to his neighbors at harvest time At
one place l even found a steam threshing ma
chine -
Many causes have combined to maize The farm.
efs IN the Puniab colonies progressive In the
first place they more or less entirely have been
CUT on from their old mooriHgs and have begun
,ile al over again in strange locality They
nave lett some Of their INSTRUMENTATION behind
them in the congested Punjab from which thev
nalied, and the pioneer conditions that they
found confroEiins them in the new region Al.
vested them OK some more of their Unborn reac.
ton The Lyallpur agricultural experiment farm,
located IN the very heart Of the settlebent has
demonstrated to them the good results Of deem
pio"lhg with chilledsteel plows and the advan.
se u using improved implements instead OF
farming In the cumbersome bungiing od-time
way A stil more potent factor that "a enco,,r.
"ei"E these farmers to modern machinery