The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-08-28

4-3 chimes imported from the UnlJeu
-StaIes. AT the time, large irrigation canals,
blUt by the government, are berating cultva-
tors from eternal worry over the prospects OF
.rain- These changes taking place with
srzrGIing rapidity The process is proceeding at
Il snails pace so slowly that it is hard for for
ezgusrs 20 realize that the transition is going
However each year more and more of the litter
ate farmers are sending their sons and daugh-
r1F-s TO school, and each year they show more in
GSsresJ in the demonstrations held the expert.
ment farms, and display less opposition to limo.
vsIDuDs. In few districts the advancement is
already quite marked This is especially true
NJ certain parts of the Punjab-the province Of
1ahe Rive Rivers, situated in northwestern India
which are known as the Canal colonies. There
several million acres of land that twenty years
9gD was barren waste, today have been con-
verted thanks to marvellous irrigation scheme,
i5usO important grainproducing region, spread
ing the fame of India wheat far and wide in the
world
TIE very first farm that visited In the col
oDjes during a recent tour wildly revealed the
transformation of Indian rural conditions. In the
courtyard shaded by a spreading jujube tree
sfooc a reaping machine. In mud she'd erected
especially Tor the purpose of protecting the farm
machinery, / wound four chilledsteel plows, two
uaf them made in the United States. On the floor
OF The dowroofed verandah the farmers son. a
Lad OF about twelve, at the highest reckoning,
clad as Dame Nature had dressed him at birth,
nut for a scanty breech-clout, stood turning the
~As6l OF a modern fodderchopper, which cut
green chart (millet in small shreds that fell
about him in a succulent shower.
After further travel and investigation among
The cnltiyators living round about LyaIIpur, the
largest city in the erstwhile waterIess wilder
ness, which now in the wake of the water car
Eied by the Chenab canal has become a paradise
nor farmers, l found that the cuItvator whose
houao had first visited not a whit more
sxCtsr111sing than of others in the district
who today are employing time and abor-saving
machinery TO do all the work their land Wher-
ssver went found agriculturists galore who
SrSzred tbeir own steel pows, harrows cultivators
and Improved fodder-choppers. Occasionally I
TpDld come across reaper which the prop
OsFry Of progressive individual who profted by
rSsnting II to his neighbors at harvest time At
cgB place ] found steam threshng ma
chine
Many causes have combined to make the farm
in the PunJab colonies progressive. In the
mrst place they less entirely have been
cut or from their old moorings, and have begun
TIE all over again in strange locality They
6zgve left some OF their INSTRUMENTATION behind
EZfem in the congested Punjab from which they
hailed. and the pioneer conditions that they
Eound confronting them in the new region d.
vested them of some more of their Unborn reac-
zion. The Lyalpur agricultural experiment farm,
Eocated in the very heart Of the settlebent has
demonstrated to them the good results of deep
slowing with chiled-steel plows and the advan-
azze OF using improved implements instead OF
EARNING in the cumbersome, bungling, od-time
' uny. stiIl more potent factor that is encour-
aging these farmers to use modern machinery