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Agriculture.

For financial reasons it has been impossible to

start any new agricultural projects or even to sink
an artesian well in order to make an experimental
garden so the work of Hr. Said Abdul Noor has been

extremely limited, owing to no fault of his own,
and he has had to devote his attention to the Palace
and LJunicipal gardens and to Shaikh HamadTs garden,
Sanayan. It is very unfortunate that he has not

been given more scope as from the work which he has
done, it has been proved that a number of vegetables
which have a market value, and various different

trees and cotton, which is most important of all,
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can be successfully grown in Bahrain, There is no
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doubt if money was available for the original outlay

that a large experimental garden growing fruit and
vegetables and run on modern methods would in course
of time become a paying proposition, but the expense

of fencing, water production, and preparing the ground
make it impossible to start such a work at present.
The Ali experiment. An attempt was made in 1349

to start an experimental garden at Aali, on the site
of the old landing ground, The water which was pro-
duced however was so strongly impregnated with sulphur
as to be useless for irrigating cultivation and during

the summer of 1350, the garden was abandoned and the
fencing which had been put up was removed to Shaikh
Hamad’s house at Sakhir.

Possibilities at Zellag. A large area of country
along the coast in the neighbourhood of Zellag was
found to be very suitable for cultivation and it was