I also asked about the area of land planted with Mit Afifi and Yanokitch. The Asil replaced the Mit Afifi in some places, and the shortage in Yanokitch was greater than in Mit Afifi relative to the cultivated area. Saklaridis and Nubari replaced them, just as the finer varieties of these two replaced the medium grade of Mit Afifi in some places. The result of this is shown in this table, which includes the average prices of "fully good" from these three varieties in December 1912 and 1913.

| Variety | Price per Qintar in Riyals | Increase or Decrease from 1912 | |---|---|---|---| | | 1912 | 1913 | | | Mit Afifi | ... | ... | 18.63 | 18.43 | +0.43 | | Nubari | ... | ... | 19.42 | 19.63 | -0.43 | | Saklaridis | ... | ... | 21.42 | 20.64 | -0.43 | The demand for government seed distributed to farmers is increasing, and this is what was distributed in the past two years: Year 1912: 42,273 Ardebs Year 1913: 90,096 Ardebs Cotton seed raised in Giza and Girsha resulted in four new cotton varieties. These were presented to a committee of experts in Alexandria, and the committee recommended planting one of them and expanding its cultivation. It is hoped that future experiments will lead to an early-maturing variety, meaning it ripens before the bollworm develops. During the past year, efforts were made to educate small farmers through thirty-eight demonstration fields on how to improve their land cultivation with their available means in a more reasonable and less expensive way than before. The wide openings through which water flows from the canals were replaced with pipes of various diameters according to