. A glimpse of old Mexico; being the observations and reflections of a tenderfoot editor while on a journey in the land of Montezuma . asmy observation has extended, husbandry is still in a most primitivecondition. Improved agricultural machinery is practically un-known. The earth is still broken with a wooden plow, the cropsharvested with a machete, the corn shelled by hand and the chaffseparated by the breezes. In one particular only do the rancherosdisplay any marked capacity in their work—in the curious art andvast industry devoted to the construction of irrigating might be expe
. A glimpse of old Mexico; being the observations and reflections of a tenderfoot editor while on a journey in the land of Montezuma . asmy observation has extended, husbandry is still in a most primitivecondition. Improved agricultural machinery is practically un-known. The earth is still broken with a wooden plow, the cropsharvested with a machete, the corn shelled by hand and the chaffseparated by the breezes. In one particular only do the rancherosdisplay any marked capacity in their work—in the curious art andvast industry devoted to the construction of irrigating might be expected under these conditions, agriculture is any-thing but varied. Two or three staples comprise almost the entire A GLIMPSE OF OLD MEXICO 97 list. I think that about three-fourths of the energies of the farmerclass are devoted to raising corn and beans, the mainstays of lifein Mexico. Cattle raising is also an important pursuit, and oneof the few that is pushing ahead rapidly at present. Of course, inadditon to the above, tobacco culture, sugar, coffee and choco-late growing are carried on in specially favored localities on a.
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