Most Fertile of Countries
By F. H. Loasby
CHUHAR KANA is a thriving little town, twenty-nine miles from the great city of Lahore. It is the market place for this district; and the people come from scores of villages round about, bringing their bullock carts loaded with grain, cotton, and all kinds of seeds, to be shipped to the large centers, and perhaps abroad. On one side of the land on which we are constructing our mission buildings, is one of the great canals of the Punjab, which, like great arteries, flow through the land, spreading life and fertility over what would otherwise be a great desert. As a result of this wonderful scheme of irrigation, the Punjab is rapidly becoming one of the richest and most fertile countries in the world.