EGYPT.

Report by Consul-General Pomeroy on the commerce, trade, and industries of Egypt for the year 1882-'83.

AGRICULTURE.

Agriculture is unquestionably the principal, and I can well say the only true source of the inexhaustible fecundity of the Egyptian soil. By its climate and the regularity with which the waters of the Nile increase and rise above their usual level, Egypt can render its lands capable of producing three tillages, which draw their names from the seasons in which they are accomplished-a summer tillage, an autumn or rise-of-the-Nile tillage, and a winter tillage.

The cultivation of the land during the three seasons of the year above mentioned presents a variety of products, which are different in character, owing to the extreme difference in climate in the provinces of Upper . and Lower Egypt.

The principal products of Egypt are the following, in an alphabetical list:

In addition to these products, there is a very large production of vegetables and fruit.

By collecting into one single table the products and their value in each moodirieh separately, we attain the results of the following table: Summer tillage and value of products in the towns and moodirichs.

NOTE.-P. T. throughout this report means piasters tariff. The piaster is valued at 5 cents by the consul-general.

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