"تقرير عسكري عن بلاد الرافدين (العراق)" [ظ‎‎١‎٧] (٢٢٦/٣٩)

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given rise to small peasant proprietors living on their
own produce and unable either to liire labour or to work
for others.
( 6 ) Emigration and Immigration.—The population of
the district is practically stagnant, and is unlikely to
increase until we have established complete security or
encouraged immigration.
(c) The possibility of raising labour corps in Northern
Jazirah is remote, ft might be possible to get several
hundred men to work in the vicinity of their homes, but
an attempt to get them to work further afield is not
likely to succeed. An effort was made to induce the
inhabitants of Tel Afar to work at Hammam Ali in 1920,
but failed. Local labour was available in 1920 at one
rupee per diem.
B. Agriculture.
(a) Products .—The list hereunder shows the agriculture
products and the amounts grown in 1919-1920, in the
political district of Tel Afar, i.e., the portion of Northern
Jazirah in Iraq territory. It has not been possible to
obtain figures for that portion of the Jazirah in Syrian
or Turkish hands. Tel Afar district is roughly the area
enclosed by the Wadi Suwaidiyah-Tel liumailan-Tel
Antar-Sinjar-Hadhra-Tel Afar-Zummar.
Wheat
... 8,500
Lentils
50
Maize
6
Millet
35
Mash
9
Beans
9
Barley
6,600
Peas
3
Simsim ...
9
Tobacco ...
1
Cotton
18
Vegetables.
350
Fruits
110
Winter and summer crops are grown, but, except in
Tel Afar, Balad Sinjar and irrigated patches on the
Tigris and other rivers, the latter is of insignificant
amount. There is no reason why, with a better use of
flow-water from permanent streams such as Tel Afar,
Ibra, Umm al Shababit, Ain Sino, Ain Ghazal, Abu
Maria, Sinjar springs, Khabur and Jaghjaghah Su and
the development of the water resources in Zargah (east
of Tel Afar) and Sinjar plains by sinking artesian or
other wells, saifi (summer) products, especially cotton,
should not be considerably increased.
{b) Methods .—Cultivation is primitive, and beyond two
or three threshing machines the only agricultural