Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-08-29

through the centuries the simplicity
and inefaciency with which the print
tive people of the peninsula endowed
them are being discarded, and their
W place is being taken by chilled steel
plows and modern harrows, cultivators,
~ mowers reapers and threshing ma
- Chimes imported from the United
States. AT the same time large irrigation canals,
built by the government, are liberating cultiva-
tors from eternal worry over the prospects Of
rain. These changes are taking place with
startling rapidly The process is proceeding at
snail's pace SO slowly that 1t is hard for for
eigners to realize that the transition is going
However, each year more and more Of the litter.
ate farmers are sending their sons 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 inno-
vations In a few districts the advancement is
already quite marked This Is especially true
of certain parts of the Punjabthe province Of
the Five Rivers situated In northwestern India
which are known as the Canal colonies. There
several million acres of land that twenty years
ago was barren waste today have been coz
verified thanks to 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
onies during recent tour vividly revealed the
transformation Of Indian rural conditions In the
courtyard shaded by spreading jujube tree
stood reaping machine In mud shed, erected
especially for the purpose Of protecting The farm
machinery / wound four chilled-steel plows, two
Of them made in the United States. On the floor
of the ow-roofed 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 a modern fodderchopper which cut
green chart (millet) in small shreds that fell
about him in succuIent 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
ried BY the Chenab canal has become a paradise
for farmers, i found that the cultivator whose
home had first visited was not whit more
enterprising than scores of others in the district
who today are employing time and labor-saving
machinery to do all the work on their land. Wher-
ever / went | found agriculturists galore who
owned their own steel plows, harrows, cultiyators
and improved fodderchoppers. Occasionally
would come across reaper which was the prop
erty of a progressive individual who prohted by
renting 1t to his neighbors at harvest time. At
one place | even found steam threshing ma
chine
Many causes have combined to make the farm
ers in the Punjab colonies progressive. In the
frst place they more oT less entirely have been
cut of from their sid moorings and have begun
life all over again il strange locality. Arhey
have left some q their INSTRUMENTATION benis1
them in the congested Ptnlalo from which they
hailed and thel hoaeeF conditions that they
found confronting 9r, in the new region ct
vested them OF sorH more Of their Unborn reac-
ton The Lyallpar agricultural experiment farm,
located in the very heart of the settiehent has
to them the good results OF deep
blowing with chilied-steel plows, and the advan
tage Of using improved implements instead Of
farming in the cumheTseme bungling, old-time
way. a still more potent factor that Is eneour
aging these farmers p use modern machinery