Quad City Times · 17 November 1938

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PALESTINE’S AGRICULTURAL SITUATION — II

By FREDERIC J. HASKIN, Special Correspondent of The Democrat and Leader

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Washington, D. C., Nov. 17.—Palestine has reached the position of the world’s second largest exporter of citrus fruit. Reaching second place of importance in a single export item would not be a special distinction for most countries.

However, with the Holy Land usually thought of as a desert area, it is an indication that Palestine is not merely a land of explorations and curiosities for tourists, but a farming region of increasing importance.

Bordering on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, the country is long and narrow, with a total area of 9,839 square miles, which is slightly larger than the state of Vermont. Altho it is 140 miles long, the country is only 23 miles wide in the north and 80 miles wide in the south.

Excluding nomadic tribes and british military forces, more than 50 per cent of the population is engaged in some type of crop production. Out of a population totaling about 1,250,000, some 500,000 peolpe are engaged in agricultural pursuits.

The Holy Land is made up of four main divisions—the hill country of Galilee and Judea, the various plains, the Beersheba region, and the desert areas.

How this transcription was made

Read from the scan at 8x to 10x with the contrast stretched. THE NEWSPAPER UNDER WHICH THIS RECORD IS FILED IS NOT THE NAME PRINTED ON THE PAGE, and the reason is worth stating. Under the headline, set in bold and centred, is “Special Correspondent of The Democrat and Leader” — a syndicate credit line that each subscribing paper set with its own name in it, so it names the paper that printed this copy; the surviving letters at the left end of the cut folio point the same way. The Davenport Democrat and Leader is the paper this archive’s Quad City Times descends from, under a name it did not take until decades later. This archive already holds a 1932 Davenport clipping filed under the later name, so filing this one under the printed name would split one paper across two titles six years apart and against a decision already made. The record therefore follows the archive, and the page’s own wording is recorded here so that the choice can be reversed. THE DATE FIGURES IN THE FOLIO ARE CUT BY THE SCAN EDGE: the month is legible, the figures are not, and the year of 1938 rests on the hand-typed slide label; the dateline “Washington, D. C., Nov. 17.” matches the label’s day. “Peolpe” for people, the lower-case b in “british military forces”, and “Altho” are all as printed. This is part II of a series; part I is not on the scan.

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