. Review of reviews and world's work. GATION BY ARTESIAN WELLS. It should be borne in mind that all south ofCorpus Christi on the east and just below SanAntonio on the West is semi-arid country, andtlierefore has to be irrigated. The original cost,if paid down, is considerable, but those who aredoing most to develop the country are makingthe irrigation proposition comparatively easy forthe newcomer by watering his farm for so muchan acre, the price ranging from $10 to $ a farmer is independent of the rainfall heis on a fair road to fortune. One company con-trols 30,000 acres west of Bro
. Review of reviews and world's work. GATION BY ARTESIAN WELLS. It should be borne in mind that all south ofCorpus Christi on the east and just below SanAntonio on the West is semi-arid country, andtlierefore has to be irrigated. The original cost,if paid down, is considerable, but those who aredoing most to develop the country are makingthe irrigation proposition comparatively easy forthe newcomer by watering his farm for so muchan acre, the price ranging from $10 to $ a farmer is independent of the rainfall heis on a fair road to fortune. One company con-trols 30,000 acres west of Brownsville, on whichthere are sixty miles of main and branch canals,fed by one great pumping plant with a capacityof 100,000 gallons per minute. A fair illustra-tion of the possibilities of irrigation is the water-ing of the famous La Parra ranch, containing800,000 acres, owned by John G. Kennedy. Onthis ranch, which is inclosed and subdividedwith 5(50 miles of smooth-wire fence, are 97 ar- 208 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REl/IEW OF AN ARTESIAN-\VEr,L HYDRANT, SENUIXO KOUTII 700GALLONS PER MINUTE, AT FALFURRIAS. tesian wells, whose capacity ranges from 350 to1,100 gallons per minute. COTTON, SUGAR, AND KICE. Cotton is still tlae Texas planters best-belovedcrop, and thousands of acres of it are grown inthe southwestern country, principally north ofSkidmore. But the Mexican boll-weevil is there,and does not seem to be in a hurry to get visitation wrought financial ruin in somesections. Time is likely to prove it was reallya blessing in disguise. The planter has beenforced to grow other crops,—such as corn, wheat,oats, and hay,—has found diversification ex-tremely profital)le, and now Ieceives nearly asmuch for the cotton which the insect has failedto injure as he formerly did for a full yield. Todate, all efforts to eradicate or to check the boll-weevil have proved futile. It begins to emerge from the chrysalis about the first week in July ;so the cotton which is p
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