Morning journal and courier., 1892-07-14
NEW HAVEN. CONN. THURSDAY MORNING, JULY H. 1892

seat Of unceasing turmoil and strife.
Nothing has ever been done to honor the
memory of Jefferson for extending the
domain of the United States from ocean to
ocean, and it is now time that some fitting
recognition should be accorded him. What
better would embody this idea of grateful
sentiment than for the Nation to erect a
statue of the great and far-seeing states
man on the west bank of the Mississippi"
One of the most notable experiments in
irrigation has been made in the Pecos val
ley, New Mexico. The Pecos river is Pc
culiarly useful for this purpose, as it de-
pends neither on rains nor SHOWS, but is
fed by hundreds of living springs, in
which no variation has been discovered for
fifteen years. The valley adjacent to it,
however, is dependent on the rainfall,
which is very insufficient, and in this
large canals and bitches have been dug.
One of these starts from the Pecos river,
six miles above the new town of Eddy, at
which point the river cuts itself through
solid limestone. A dam /, ,130 feet long
and so feet high at its deepest place ele-
Yates the water and turns It through the
canal head, which is cut out of the rock
so feet wide and 25 feet deep. The dam
makes lake seven miles long and nearly
two miles wide, which holds 10000, 900
gallons of water. The stream which flows
into the canal is 20 feet deep and 80 feet
wide. From the main canal the
water is carried in side bitches to the
lands along either side, where its
flow is regulated by the owners of the
land by means of little gates. 1t is esti-
mated that zoe, 900 acres will be made pro-
ductive under this system of irrigation.
Mr. Rayment of the Veterinary depart
ment of the British army read a curious
and interesting paper the other evening
before the Asistic society of Bombay. in
which he showed how the business of
horse-breeding in many districts practi-
tally had been destroyed by the tremen-
dous increase in the export of wheat and
cotton. He said that in places where for
merly one could easily find fifteen or
twenty mares in q village, now none or
only one or two exist, the reason being
that more money Is to be made out of
grain, cotton, etc., than out of horse erear-
ing. The zemindar, alive to his own in
terests, sells his mares and puts his
money into bullocks, we'll digging, ETC., to
raise what will pay him best. If he
could be induced to use his mares in the
plough, in drawing water for irrigation,
and the like, instead of his productive
bullocks, an immense step would be taken
in the right direction. For various rea-
SONS, the chief of which is his intense con-
servatism, nothing will persuade him to do
this. The zemindar keeps his mare simply
to breed from, and with the exception of
leading her in q wedding procession or oc-
casionally riding her at a walk from one
village to another, never uses her. So the
sale of her produce has to cover the ex-
penses of her keep and leave a margin of
profit. As long as grass cost nothing and
grain but little this was all very well, but
now there is not sufficient fodder to be got
off the land for the plough-bullocks, and
grass must be bought. Grain, too, has
gone up in price.