Miscellaneous.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Why should the Government spend millions of dollars annually in the effort to control the lower Mississippi river in order that a few people, comparatively speaking, may be benefited thereby? A careful, thoughtful examination of the subject will convince almost any one that the cultivation of large areas of bottom lands in the valley of the Mississippi was begun a thousand years or more before nature had properly fitted and prepared the same for its successful, profitable and healthful occupation by man.