Miscellaneous, 2 



making bricks than for growing crops. 

 Irrigating thus the water will sink to a 

 great depth, and much more water is 

 used than should be, besides much harm 

 being done to the land. Also, after such 

 an amount of water has been put on 

 perhaps a heavy rain sets in— in fact 

 there seems to be no judgment used in 

 many cases. The more water put on and 

 the stronger the current in the furrows, 

 of course, the sooner the land is irrigated, 

 no matter how the land has been churn- 

 ed by the bare feet of the men, or how 

 many pools of standing water there are 

 left behind, or how much land is washed 

 away. Properly irrigated land should 

 look as if there had been a nice rain, not 

 as it does in many cases as if a river 

 had run over it. 



Col. Corbett, the irrigation expert, 

 when he was here expressed surprise at 

 the amount of water used per acre, but, 

 as events have shown, very little notice 

 has been given to his remarks, and as 

 there are a lot of people taking up irri- 

 gable land I hope these notes may be of 

 some good. Very many acres of the land 

 at present under irrigation will have to 

 be manured before many years are over. 

 I have had many years of experience in 

 irrigating, and 1 would impress on all 

 new settlers the utmost necessity of 

 being careful not to put tou much water 

 on to their lands. If they do. it will 

 mean a large expenditure in the near 

 future in manure. It will lessen the 

 yield per acre and sour the land so that 

 it will take much time and expense to 

 remedy the harm done by over irrigat- 

 ing or flooding the land.— Natal Agri- 

 cultural Journal, Vol. XI., No. 12, 

 December, 1908. 



THE TROPICAL EXHIBITION, 



This number closes our fourth year of 

 issue, during which all who have come 

 into contact with us, either as adver- 

 tisers, subscribers, correspondents, or 

 collaborators, have given us credit, to 

 the fullest degree possible, of being a real 

 live paper, with an energetic pushing 

 staff behind it. But we are not satisfied. 

 There is still far too great a gap of 

 ignorance and indifference between the 

 public on this side and many of the 

 centres where we circulate. 



As explained in our September (1908) 

 issue, we send out our numbers so closely 

 that we cannot execute orders for the 

 1908 volume complete, not having a 

 single copy of the September issue for 

 that year left on hand. Anyone having 

 a copy of this number that he does not 

 require will perhaps be kind enough to 

 returp it to us. 



5 TMarch, 1909. 



Returning to the cause of our dis- 

 satisfaction, we mean to remove that 

 to a very great extent by July next. In 

 July will take place at Olympia, where 

 our successful Rubber Exhibition was 

 held in September, the Travel and 

 Tropical Exhibition, to which we have 

 called attention several times. The 

 " Travel " Section we are leaving mainly 

 to Mr. Manders and his friends, but in 

 the Tropical Section we hope to include 

 all our friends, and those who work with 

 us in other ways than calling attention to 

 their firms by means of our advertising 

 columns. The Royal Mail Company, 

 for instance, in whose boats one of 

 our earliest subscribers has crossed the 

 Atlantic some seventy-four times, will, 

 we hope, take a prominent position, 

 Not only has this company the contract 

 for carrying His Majesty's mails to 

 Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina, but it 

 dominates, together with our old friends, 

 Messrs. Scrutton, Sons and Co., the 

 Central American and West Indian 

 carrying trade as well. Steamers also 

 run the whole length of the Pacific coast 

 of America, and by their Orient exten- 

 sion will take you to the far East, or to 

 the near East, as Morocco, and other 

 centres. Under their Chairman, Mr. 

 Owen Philipps, M.P., whom we induced 

 to join the Committee of the Rubber 

 Exhibition, this company has thrown 

 out its lines until they practically 

 embrace the whole of the tropical and 

 sub-tropical zones. They certainly must 

 be induced to come in, and bring of their 

 best from the centres whose produce 

 they are handling more and more every 

 year. Nothing advertises a line so well 

 in the eyes of the travelling public (and 

 all the greatest travellers, tourists, 

 globe-trotters, and merchants are in- 

 terested in the Exhibition) as typical 

 exhibits from the various centres with 

 which one of these giant companies 

 trades. The long list of places on paper 

 to which their boats go appeals to no 

 one, but when such a company exhibits 

 in the Tropical Section, and shows the 

 raw material and manufactured goods 

 from every part of the world, they 

 can, and certainly will, increase their 

 business two and three fold. We there- 

 fore trust that our good friends the 

 Royal Mail-Orient Line will take as 

 prominent a part in our Tropical 

 Exhibition as Brazil did at the Rubber 

 Show last year. 



Brazil is a country with magnificent 

 resources, that should, and we feel certain 

 will, again take a commanding space to 

 help boom its exports, as coffee, cacao, 

 rubber, hides, &c, on the one hand, 

 and advertise its possibilities for the 

 capitalist) large and small, on the other, 



