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prnment records are correct and enables us to get the amount of acreage, 

 the vineyards of our village called "Kapudjeelari" which lies to the 

 s^outli east of the city in the direction of Cassandra, cover some 960 acres. 



American Machinery. 



"While we can hardly be said to have more than got a fair start upon 

 the dry-farming methods upon our small school farm, yet we find the 

 fine American machinery — the sulky plow, the disc-harrow and the seed 

 drill (we have the "Empire) of the greatest help in working up the soil 

 along scientific methods, and one of our fields, which with harrow and 

 plow has been worked over some nine or ten times while in the fallow 



Result of iVIethodical Work. 



and in preparing for seeding, is now, at the time of writing, probably the 

 finest looking grain field in all this region. Of course it would not do 

 to prophesy as to the harvest, but our experience on one of our barley 

 fields last year, whose yield, (26 bushels to the acre) was not large, yet 

 was quite remarkable beside other fields near by, which were hardly 

 worth reaping, this experience, I say, encourages us to hope that we shall 

 eventually succeed in being of some help in bringing the agricultural con- 

 ditions into a somewhat better state in this reg'on. I am sending you 

 under another cover, a few of my last year's reports, which perhaps some 

 members of the Congress may like to glance over. The report for 1908 

 is not 3'et ready. 



"With my best greetings to the Congress, in which I feel honored 

 in being a member, I am, sir, 

 "Very sincerely yours, 



.JOHN HENRY HOUSE. 

 "President of the Thessalonica Agricultural Institute, Salonica, 

 Turkey." 



RUSSIA. 



(By Joseph A. Rosen, Special Delegate from the Department of Agricul- 

 ture of Russia.) 



"Ladies and Gentlemen, Members of the Dry Farming Congress — I 

 consider myself fortunate in having been given an opportunity to express 

 to you the great admiration our people in general, and our foremost 

 agriculturists in particular, have for the remarkable energy and extraor- 

 dinary ability to accomplish things displayed by the Western farmer of 

 this great counry of yours. The best of them, the creators of the West, 

 are among you, among the members of the Dry Farming Congress. 



Dry Land Area. 



"We, Russians, are especially interested in your work as there are 

 vast regions in our country similar to your semi -arid and arid West. 

 Our steppes in Southern European Russia closely resemble your Great 

 Plain region. Our Turkestan and a large part of our Middle Asia pos- 



