Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1913 — Trees Brought Rain. [ARTICLE]

Trees Brought Rain.

la lower Egypt rain fell very seldom. During the French occupation, about 1719, it did not rain for 16 months, hut since Mahomet All and Ibrahim Pasha completed their vast plantations—the former alone planted more than 20,000,000 olive, fir, cotton, acacia, plane trees, etc.—there new falls a good deal of rain.