Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1913 — About Egypt. [ARTICLE]

About Egypt.

The total area of Egypt proper la about 480,000 square miles, of which, however, only some 14,000 square miles are arable. The population exceeds 10,000,000, the density of the settled part thus surpassing that of any other land on earth, Belgium not excepted. The superiority of Egypt ae an agricultural country la owing to the equable climate; the poeslbUlty of carrying on farming all the year round, a constant supply of water and, aa a consequence of the Nile overflow, a natural and perpetual richness of the soil, which does away wfth the groat coat of fertilisation.