Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-08-29

IL chimes, imported from the United
States AT the same time, large irrigation canals
built by the government, are liberatng cultiva
tors from eternal worry the prospects of
rain. These changes taking place with
startling rapdity. The process is proceeding at
snail's pace so 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
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
ones during a recent tour vividly revealed the
transformation of Indian rural conditions In the
courtyard, shaded by a spreading juiube tree
stood reaping machine. In a mud shed erected
especially for the purpose of protecting the farm
machinery | wound four chilled-steel plows two
of them made in the Inied States. On the floor
OF the low-roofed veTandah the farmers son
lad of about twelve, at the highest reckoning
clad as Dame Nature had dressed him at birth
but for a scanty breech-clout, stood turning the
wheel of modern fodderehopper which cut
green chart (milletl IN small shreds that fell
about him in succulent shower
After further travel and investigation among
the cultivators living round about Lyapur 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 paradise
Tor farmers, found that the cultivator whose
nome had first visited was not a whit more
enterprising than of others in the district
VINO today are employing time and labor.saving
machinery TO do all the work on their land Wher
ever went found agrcultursts galore who
owned their own steel pows. harrows cultivators
and improved fodderchoppers Occasionally |
would come across reaper which was the prom.
erty of progressive individual who profted by
renting 1t to his neighbors at harvest time AT
one place l even found steam threshing ma.
chine
Many causes have combined to make the farm.
ers in the Punjab colonies progressive In the
first place they more or less entirely have heen
cut of from their old mornings. and have begun
life all over again in strange locality They
have left some of their ultra-conservatsm behind
hailed, and the pioneer conditions that they
found confronting them in the new region d.
vested them of some more of their Unborn reac
ton, The Lyalpur agricultural experiment farm
located in the very heart of the settebent, has
demonstrated to them the good results of deep
blowing with ched-steel plows and the advan-
farming in the cumbersome bungllng od-time
aging these farmers to use modern machinery