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The National Geographic Magazine 



Crop of Onions on Reclaimed Salt Marsh, Revere, Massachusetts 



Photos from U. S. Dep't of Agriculture 



Crop of Hay on Diked Meadow, IMarshfield, Massachusetts 



The tidal marsh lands along the Atlantic coast are estimated to have an area of about 

 1,000,000 acres. As part of these lands are near large cities, and wonld have a very high 

 value for market gardening and the raising of fruit if they could be protected from the 

 invasion of salt water and relieved of the water draining onto them from higher lands, the 

 Department of Agriculture is helping to find a practicable method for making them useful. 



