. Bulletin. 1901-13. Agriculture; Agriculture. 10 AGRICULTURE IN THE SAHARA DESERT. Who would suspect that amid these mountains of bare sand, where even the hardy shrubs and grasses of the desert find no foothold," men can live by the products of the soil? Yet in the very heart of the Erg, two long days' ride east or west from the nearest habitations', there exists one of the most highly developed agricultural communi- ties in the world. This is in the country known as the Oued Souf, situated in extreme southeastern Algeria (see fig. 1), about midway between the oases of southwestern Tuni
. Bulletin. 1901-13. Agriculture; Agriculture. 10 AGRICULTURE IN THE SAHARA DESERT. Who would suspect that amid these mountains of bare sand, where even the hardy shrubs and grasses of the desert find no foothold," men can live by the products of the soil? Yet in the very heart of the Erg, two long days' ride east or west from the nearest habitations', there exists one of the most highly developed agricultural communi- ties in the world. This is in the country known as the Oued Souf, situated in extreme southeastern Algeria (see fig. 1), about midway between the oases of southwestern Tunis and the Algerian oases known as the Oued Rirh, in which latter the date palm is grown by. PlO, 1.âMap showing location of the Oued Souf with respect to other localities in Algeria and Tunis. Europeans upon a commercial scale.'' From El Oued. the capital of the Soul", it is about TO miles southwest to Tougourt, the chief town of the Oued Rirh, and about the same distance northeast of El Oued IS Nel'ta. the nearest oasis in Tunis. The elevation of El Oued is about 257 Peel above sea level. "Only eight species of flowering plants were found growing wild In the Souf region by Massart. Sec " Oh voyage botanique au Sahara," p. "Jiu < 1898). 'â Sec Plate II (map) In Bui. 53, Bureau of Planl Industry, " The Date Palm," by w. T. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering. Washington Govt. Print. Off
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